The most common initial task that I get asked for help on is connecting a newly deployed virtual machine in vCloud Air from the catalog to the internet so you can install other packages or update the operating system. This post is probably long overdue considering the number of times …
Read More »Check Out The New Cloud Academy
I just got word that this just launched today so go check out the new VMware Cloud Academy! There is even a promotion for some free VMworld tickets, so take the quiz and see how you score and get entered! What is VMware Cloud Academy? “Think VMworld technical breakout but available …
Read More »Building a Full Scale Hybrid Data Center
Some people may or may not have seen on the VMware vCloud Blog that I posted a series of articles documenting a very large scale lab build out. The purpose of these articles was to try and drive home some of the examples you can do with Hybrid Cloud if …
Read More »How To Seed a vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery Replication Without Downtime
UPDATED 7/9/2014: This has been tested and is SUPPORTED by VMware Engineering! I got this question the other day, and decided to just test it out. The premise seemed sound but I wanted to see if anything would fail in the process of replication using a live cloned copy …
Read More »How to Configure Multiple Machines For vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Replication
There is something people have asked as I have done multiple demonstrations of the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery offering is “Can we configure multiple machines for replication?”. Well, with the help of Akeem Jenkins and some lab testing we found out the answer is actually YES. To be honest this …
Read More »vExpert Access to vCloud Air Re-Launched!
Well, I mentioned this was coming and thanks to Jeramiah Dooley offering to help out, we finally made it happen! We’ve setup a process and a plan for vExperts to get access on a rolling basis to vCloud Air. There is a lot of details so instead of repeating them, …
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