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vExpert access to vCloud Air

By on May 5, 2014 in vCloud Air

Have you just been awarded vExpert 2014 status?  Want to try vCloud Air for 30 days?  If so, then you can now.  Chris Colotti and Jeramiah Dooley have setup a process and plan to get vExpert’s free access on a rolling 30 days basis.  Pretty cool or what? For more information on the process and to sign up for this free access, here is a list of required links.  Please read the extensive program guide for full information. Program Information Post on Community Forums Program Guide Sign Up Form Participant Calendar I think this is a really great way to try some cloud resources for free.  As a vExpert myself, I know I always appreciate new stuff I can experiment with, to see how it could potentially improve the infrastructure and designs I build.  This is a great way to do this. As mentioned on Chris’s site, there is a few […]

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Bring your own licenses to the cloud

Bring your own licenses to the cloud

By on April 15, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

A little while ago Gabrie van Zanten (aka Gabes Virtual World) asked me a question about how you license Microsoft products in a cloud? Specifically he wanted to know how VMware states “You can bring your own licenses to the cloud”. Lets take a look at this.  Currently VMware has two cloud offerings: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Dedicated Cloud.  The key differences here is that a Virtual Private Cloud is multi-tenant.  You are logically separated from other consumers of the service.  A dedicated cloud on the other hand is each customer is hosted on physically isolated servers, away from other customers.  Its exactly that, its your dedicated cloud.  This has an impact on how you license your apps and OS’s. So back to licensing, how does it differ across the two services: Operating Systems – Microsoft requires all customers on multi-tenant public cloud environments to purchase the Windows Server licenses […]

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Configure vCHS Endpoint in vCAC

By on February 21, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Looking to configure vCHS endpoint in vCAC? I have been asked this question quite a few times since I published my Home Lab design. How do you do it? Well anyone who has used vCAC knows its not just 4 clicks, it requires some thought around how you are going to setup and consume the resources on the endpoint. I use vCAC to deploy to these endpoints in my home lab: This really great video has just been released that has a complete walk through on how to do it. Its worth a watch if you are trying to configure vCHS endpoint in vCAC. VMware has lots of other videos available on vCAC.  Click here to see them all

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Host Microsoft Exchange in a hybrid cloud

By on February 13, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

After a crazy few days at PEX, and lots of conversations with people, one of the questions that kept coming up was how can I design and host Microsoft Exchange Cloud in a hybrid cloud model. Great Question!! This is a great use case for the hybrid cloud.  One of the easiest answers is You could split up your exchange design however you see fit.  Client Access Servers could be hosted on vCHS providing the public facing part of Exchange, with the backend Mailbox servers on Premise perhaps, or split across multiple clouds for DR? Anyone who knows exchange, will be thinking now of all the different possibilities you could have. In my opinion Exchange is the best product to come from Microsoft.  They have advanced it tremendously with every release, and with Exchange 2013 you have all the built in Disaster Recovery and Disaster Avoidance features that really make […]

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multicast within cloud environments

Multicast within Cloud environments

By on January 23, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Question: Can you use Multicast within Cloud Environments? I got asked this question the other day on the Q&A for the Virtual VMUG. Their question was “could they use Multicast within Cloud environment?” specifically vCHS. The short answer yes you can but it depends 🙂 The Long Answer Lets initially look at what Multicast is, this is an excerpt from Wikipedia: In computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source. Copies are automatically created in other network elements, such as routers, but only when the topology of the network requires it. IP multicast is a technique for one-to-many communication over an IP infrastructure in a network. It scales to a larger receiver population by not requiring prior knowledge of who or how many receivers there are. Multicast uses network infrastructure efficiently by requiring […]

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