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VMware launches Pay as you go cloud

VMware launches Pay as you go Cloud Service

By on January 21, 2015 in vCloud Air

VMware officially launched the VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud On-Demand (or for short VPC On-Demand) yesterday 20th January.  This is a major milestone in VMware’s cloud offerings, and finally brings the agility to the cloud offering that enterprises and developers alike have been asking for. The Pay as you go offering, allows anyone to simply sign up with a credit card and start consuming resources.  You only get charged for what you use, and is billed on a per minute basis.  Unlike the subscription cloud VMware offer, this allows you to simply spin up a VM when you need for a particular amount of time and then destroy it and only get charged for that period it was in use.  Perfect for those seasonal demands when you have ran out of capacity in your data center and need something quick. The full announcement can be read on VMware’s blog […]

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VMware vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems

By on December 11, 2014 in vCloud Air

Andy Steven who is a colleague of mine working in the EMEA vCloud Air team asked me what Operating Systems are supported in VMware vCloud Air? This isn’t the first time I have been asked this question, so I thought I would quickly publish the list, to provide easy reference to lookup which vCloud Air Operating Systems are supported. As most of you know, VMware vCloud Air leverages vCloud Director to enable the cloud capabilities needed to provide a public cloud service.  vCloud Director supports a wide variety of 32 bit and 64 bit Operating Systems. vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems The current Operating Systems supported by vCloud Director are: Microsoft Windows Linux Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Microsoft Windows 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Microsoft Windows 8.1 SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 Microsoft […]

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Veeam Podcast

Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover and David Hill

By on November 25, 2014 in vCloud Air, Veeam

Yesterday I recorded a Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover.  It was a great honor to be asked by Rick to take part in one of his podcasts.  They are extremely popular with the virtualisation community and I want to thank Rick for inviting me on to talk. This podcast is episode number 103 in the series and is titled vCloud Air: Explain it to me. Rick writes a nice introduction: In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts David Hill. David works in Technical Marketing at VMware and is one of the best when it comes to VMware technologies and vCloud Air is what he is focusing on nowadays. Rick and David speak about what vCloud Air is at the high level, how it is priced and how some of the specific storage features like SSD-accelerated storage are used in vCloud Air. The cool thing about Rick’s podcasts is that they are […]

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Server Certificate not verified error vCloud Air Plugin

By on November 19, 2014 in vCloud Air

After upgrading the VMware vSphere web client vCloud Air plugin today, I received the error, Server Certificate Not Verified. This error appeared when I was trying to add in my vCloud Air credentials. First you click the register vCloud Air Account Then you enter the credentials However, once you click OK you receive the error: Server Certificate Not Verified This error is actually expected, as the new release of the vCloud Air plugin version 1.5.1 release notes specifically state: Certificate requirement While establishing an SSL connection to vCloud Air, the plug-in verifies the SSL certificate of the site. As part of the installation process, you must download the certificate from https://vchs.vmware.com and add it to the trusted keystore of the vSphere Web Client. If you do not add the certificate, you will be unable to register your vCloud Air account with the plug-in or connect to vCloud Air. The vCloud Air […]

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vCloud Air vSphere Client update released

By on November 18, 2014 in vCloud Air

Today VMware released the vCloud Air vSphere Client update version 1.5.1.  This release doesn’t have any new features, but does fix some issues that have been found in the previous version. The issues resolved that this release resolve are: Certificate requirement While establishing an SSL connection to vCloud Air, the plug-in verifies the SSL certificate of the site. As part of the installation process, you must download the certificate from https://vchs.vmware.com and add it to the trusted keystore of the vSphere Web Client. If you do not add the certificate, you will be unable to register your vCloud Air account with the plug-in or connect to vCloud Air. Internationalization The plug-in now accepts non-ASCII characters in text fields and displays names with non-ASCII characters correctly. Smaller package size The plug-in package size has been reduced significantly, to approximately 10 MB. To read the full release notes follow: https://www.vmware.com/support/hybridcloud/doc/vcaplugin_151_rel_notes.html Please remember when […]

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