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VMworld 2011 – Session #1264 – Private vCloud Architecture Techical Deep Dive

Published on July 27, 2011 by David Hill in General

The schedule for the session has been announced: Tuesday 30th August 10.00 – 11.00 Wednesday 31st August 08.00 – 09.00 Make sure you sign up. Update: I am very pleased to announce that Chris Colotti (@ccolotti), a Consulting Architect from the Americas Cloud Practice will also be presenting this session with me. My session has been accepted for VMworld 2011! I am extremely excited about presenting at VMworld, having never had the opportunity previously attend VMworld!! So with this being my first VMworld, what a way to attend. I previously presented this session at PEX2011 in Orlando and won an award for it so I hope the second time round this will be another success. For those who attended at PEX, the session will be completely overhauled to include the latest vCloud Reference Architecture. I hope to see lots of familiar faces in the audience, and especially hope to see lots of faces I don’t recognise. Session Abstract Enterprises globally are enthusiastically embracing Cloud Computing as both a way of reducing costs and improving the quality of service IT provides to its end customers. To achieve this, enterprises are looking to VMware and its partners to help them deploy VMware

Quick vCloud Director Document links

Published on July 25, 2011 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

A few people have been asking me the past week or so where VMware keeps its documents in relation to vCloud Director. I thought I would quickly post some of the links, just in case you cant find them on VMware.com. Main product location: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html Main product documentation location: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html vCloud Security Hardening Guide :: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pdf

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VMware announces vCloud Director v1.5

Published on July 13, 2011 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

VMware vCloud Director is the product used to provide cloud consumers with the ability to have self service provisioning and to deploy workloads without the need to understand the underlying technologies. VMware vCloud Director has been around for about a year now. VMware officially announced VMware vCloud Director version 1.5 yesterday. I thought I would provide some insight into some of the new features that have been included in the latest release. New Features: Fast Provisioning (Linked Clones) Third Party Distributed Switch support for VLAN based and vCDNI vApp Custom Guest Properties VMware vCloud Messages vSphere 5 Support Microsoft SQL Server Support Five tuple firewall services IPSec VPN Services I think the two most important features to be included is the support of Microsoft SQL databases, and the ability to use Fast Provisioning. Lots of customers that I have spoken too, have wanted SQL Support for a long time. Oracle is an expensive database product and if you do not currently use this in your environment then purchasing licenses for this have been difficult to justify to some CTO’s. SQL support will now allow all those who only use SQL to easily deploy vCloud Director without the necessary expense and

VMware launches Cloud Infrastructure products

Published on July 13, 2011 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

Yesterday as most of you know was the biggest launch in VMware’s history. Being inside the company at this moment in time is very exciting, especially working specifically in cloud computing technology. I thought I would share a quick highlight of the new products and to provide some links to information on the web to help you find more information. 5 New products VMware vSphere 5 VMware vCloud Director 1.5 VMware vShield 5 VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 VMware vSphere 5 vSphere is the underlying virtualisation technology that makes cloud computing possible. Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) at Yellow-Bricks has written some nice articles on the new features available in vSphere 5, so I am not going to cover these. For further information on the products listed above take a look at VMware.com

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Guest OS Support in VMware vCloud Director

Published on July 1, 2011 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

A few people were discussing this the other day internally about why some VMs exported from vCenter to vCloud Director using vCloud Connector the OS type was displayed as Other Linux. When diving a bit deeper it turned out to be a Cent OS installation, which is not officially supported by vCloud Director. This made me think that maybe not everyone was aware of the Operating Systems supported by vCD. A lot of people believed if vCenter supported it so did vCloud Director, which is not the case, so I thought I would share the link to the published document and include the information here for quick reference. To see the full list of supported Guest Operating Systems please click here. Listed below is some of the highlights of the list. Note: All Virtual Machine hardware is Version 7 unless specified. Microsoft Windows 32-Bit Support Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Datacenter, Standard and Web edition Windows Small Business Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows XP Pro Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Pro Windows NT 4 Microsoft Windows 64-Bit Support Windows 7 Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Datacenter and

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