Recently I wrote an article about the overall “vCloud EcoSystem”, and what components were required to build out a full Cloud environment. The article briefly touches on the availability of some of these components. A quick extract is shown below: So why are these components important? When designing a vCloud environment, you need to take into consideration the availability of certain components, like vCenter for example. This is no longer a management tool that is used to manage your virtual infrastructure. This is a critical component of your vCloud environment passing through all the operational commands a consumer initiates using vCloud Director. How do you protect vCenter? There are 6 databases in a vCloud Ecosystem. How do you protect all the databases? Every component shown above with the exception of ESXi and vCloud Connector have a database that have relationships with each other. If you loose a vCenter database and […]
