Lots to talk about over at VMware’s Cloud Services Business Unit. Yesterday VMware made the Virtual Private Cloud On-Demand Generally Available which is the new pay as you go credit card offering. They also announced enhanced Disaster Recovery features that will be released in the coming months. I think this announcement went a little unheard due to the big splash On-Demand made. This release is of particular importance to me, as it is the one I am concentrating all my time and effort developing demo’s, video’s, tutorials, use cases and presentations on, so excuse me for being a little excited lol. I will also be talking about this more in-depth at the London VMUG on 22nd January. The three key features for the next release of vCloud Air Disaster Recovery are: Native Fail back Native fail back allows you to replicate your virtual machines back to your on premises datacenter, […]
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VMware launches Pay as you go Cloud Service
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 […]
VMware vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems
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 […]