vCloud - Virtualization Software
VMware, DevOps, and Private Cloud: Bridging From Virtualization to Private Cloud
June 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco ChampionAs a proponent for automation, orchestration, and private cloud, I was pleased with this great video from VMware which helps to tell the story very effectively on what the advantages are to embracing these methodologies.
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vCHS Disaster Recovery as a Service: Overview With Cormac Hogan
June 11, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1Cormac Hogan, Storage Architect for the Integration Engineering Team at VMware, has written a great post about the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) Disaster Recover as a Service (DRaaS). If you didn’t get lost in the acronyms already, you … Read More
Putting the Service in Self-Service: Understanding the Cloud Service Catalog
May 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – (Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare)
But what is in a name? Service Catalogs can come in many different shapes and sizes. … Read More
How To Deploy VMware Cloud Automation Center (vCAC)
January 22, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNAVMware’s Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a tool that enables end users to consume the services that reside in your company’s data center while allowing administrators to maintain control over this consumption. In other words, vCAC brings to the enterprise … Read More
Managing your Virtual DataCenter – 4 Key Strategies
December 20, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNAWhile recently studying for VMware Advanced Professional Datacenter Design exam, I had the chance to study documents in the VCAP-DCD blueprint. Some of these documents provide insights into effective strategies to use before, during, and after deploying a Virtual Infrastructure.
The Top 10 Most Important Features in VSphere 5.5
August 30, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1VMware announced important updates to their flagship product line this week – vCloud Suite – which includes the leading type-1 hypervisor, VMware vSphere. There is a LOT to get excited about with these announcements. After all, VMware wouldn’t wait to announce vSphere 5.5 … Read More
The Future of Virtualization is Emerging… & it’s Cloudy
June 13, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSEScott’s latest musings on the “cloud-ification’ of virtualization. What strategy considerations should be on the table?Read More