Although I cannot talk about the specifics VMware posted a press release yesterday regarding the new vCloud Hybrid Service. If you want to learn more about it you can register for the web-cast online which will be happening on May 21st at 10:00am PDT. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Launch Details To register, please go to: http://www.vmware.com/go/vmwarehybrid Get signed up and see what the ... Read More »
I was talking to Rick Vanover a couple of weeks ago on Twitter and the topic of Veeam and vCloud Director came up. Incidentally Rick is a member of one of my challenge groups for Les Mills Combat and is doing AWESOME and down about 20 pounds last time we talked. So give him a WOOT on that next time you see him. ... Read More »
First I wanted to say that I have had a lot of fun digging back into Software Defined Datacenter, (SDDC). If you have not been able to tell I dove back in feet first with my recent vCloud Director Hybrid Cloud Case Study which I will also be presenting on the vBrown Bag this week. Something I discussed in the process I glazed ... Read More »
I’m actually surprised in the last few posts nobody has picked up on the fact I am showing some VMware View servers along with a View PCoIP desktop in my diagrams. The fact of the matter is this is of course un-supported, but I wanted to see if it could be done. The reasoning was pretty simple. I wanted PCoIP ... Read More »
So all week I have been posting tidbits about the vCloud Director Hybrid cloud I have been building. So what was my purpose for doing so? Well I did it to make a couple of points of course the following is the final outcome formed into a bit of a case study that you can digest for a while. The ... Read More »
In the process of building my experimental “MonsterCloud” vCloud Director Hybrid setup I obviously needed to do some site to site VPN between the following locations: VMware Eval Cloud Stratogen Cloud My House The trick here is that this is now turning into a true Hybrid cloud as two sites are running vCloud Director, and my house is not. It’s ... Read More »
As I have been building out this crazy vCloud Director Hybrid setup in a few of the public clouds I am using from Virtacore, Stratogen, and the VMware Evaluation Cloud, I decided to try hosting all the vCloud Connector components in the various clouds. One thing I remember from the vCloud Connector 1.0 days was the Server component was not ... Read More »
So last week I started on sort of an experiment that was really to investigate the new Organization Administrator features of the Edge Gateway in vCloud Director 5.1. I happen to have several public vCloud Director organizations, but for this purposes I am using the VMware vCloud Service Evaluation as it was just upgraded to version 5.1. As I started poking, ... Read More »
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