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vCloud Disaster Recovery White paper published

Published on March 28, 2013 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

Alan Renouf and Aidan Dalgleish have written a white paper on how to automate the failover of your vCloud environment. This case study is a really interesting read, with some really cool concepts in it. Definite recommended reading for anyone looking to automate the disaster recovery of there vCloud infrastructure and provide business continuity. Click here to read the whitepaper VMware vCloud Director® enables enterprise organizations to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere®, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling vSphere virtual resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. It helps users build agile infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud environments that greatly accelerate the time to market for applications and the responsiveness of IT organizations. Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure, it is even more important in IaaS solutions. This technical paper was developed to provide additional insight and information regarding the use of VMware vSphere PowerCLI™ to automate the recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. In particular, it focuses on automation of the recovery steps for vCloud Director 1.5–managed VMware vSphere vApp™ workloads. The recovery of management components can be achieved using VMware® vCenter™

vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency white paper released

Published on March 1, 2012 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

Today Duncan Epping at Yellow-Bricks.com and Chris Colotti at ChrisColotti.us released the VMware vCloud Infrastructure Resiliency case study. Duncan has already blogged about this. He explained how he came up with this idea, and the following quote is from his article: Someone asked me at PEX where this solution came from all of a sudden, well this is based on a solution I came up with on a random Friday morning half of December when I woke up at 05:00 in Palo Alto still jet-lagged. I diagrammed it on a napkin and started scribbling things down in Evernote. I explained the concept to Chris over breakfast and that is how it started. Over the last two months Chris (+ his team) and I validated the solution and this is the outcome. I want to thank Chris and team for their hard work and dedication. After Duncan’s story ends, it actually continues with Chris and myself. I was already at VMware HQ working, when I received a frantic call from Chris, who repeatedly told me to “find a white board! find a white board! quickly find a white board! I am on my way in!!”. I found an office with a white

vCloud Disaster Recovery

Published on February 13, 2012 by David Hill in Cloud Computing

Its finally out there for the public to consume. As a lot of people will probably already know, a team of us in VMware have been working on putting together a vCloud infrastructure Disaster Recovery solution. Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti have wrote a blog article covering the whole aspect of the solution which can be viewed by clicking here The solution involves using VMware Site Recovery Manager to fail over the vCloud Management Cluster VMs as per the VMware vCloud Architecture Tool kit reference architecture. The diagram below demonstrates a high level overview of the solution: In essence, what happens is all the VMs running under the Management Cluster vCenter are all failed over to the secondary site using SRM, then utilising storage replication at the Resource cluster layer, all the vCloud workloads are also protected outside of SRM protection. This solution can be used to not only protect your vCloud Director cells and subsequent workloads, but also the whole vCloud Eco-system components, for example Chargeback and vCenter Orchestrator. See related blog articles: vCloud Ecosystem components explained and vCloud Ecosystem components explained part 2 As detailed above the full solution architecture can be viewed by reading the vCloud blog

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