Having worked for about 3 years with vCloud Director I have to admit that the networking subsystem is the one that takes more time to digest. Part of this is because it is fairly complex rich. Part of it is because VMware has not done a great job at trying to expose that richness . . . → Read More: Liquid Data Center
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Yesterday morning I woke up and found myself being mentioned in one of Randy Bias’ blog posts on the Amazon Vs VMware battle. As I was reading thorough the article I found hard to disagree with what Randy was saying. I am not referring specifically to his conclusions (more on this later) but . . . → Read More: A Tail of Wrong Assumptions That Lead to Wrong Conclusions Last week I posted an article on the VMware vCloud corporate blog (re-posted here). That article talks about the extensibility of the core vCloud platform to use features that are not natively exposed. While the use case is centered around vShield App, the extensibility framework really provides infinite possibilities. . . . → Read More: The Cost of Building Clouds This article was originally posted on the VMware vCloud corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. By: Massimo Re Ferre’ (Staff Systems Engineer – Global CoE) and Joe Sarabia (Sr. Consultant – Global CoE) Background In the last few years I have seen . . . → Read More: vCloud Director Meets vShield App Backup and restore (of consumer workloads) in a vCloud Director environment is a hot topic. When you deal with Pets (Vs. Cattle) it is important that you take care of your little lovely friends workloads. Part of the effort of taking care of them includes backing them up regularly and, more importantly, restoring them . . . → Read More: Backup and Restore of vCloud Director Consumer Workloads I apologize for the catchy title (I need to drive clicks, somehow). The title of this blog post should have been “considerations on some interesting AWS (Amazon Web Services) usage data I came across”. Not very catchy. A few weeks ago I saw a study done by The Big Data Group re the . . . → Read More: AWS: a Space Shuttle to Go Shopping? I keep bumping into discussions where people try to compare vCloud (Director) and OpenStack. The last one that caught my attention was an email from a colleague that went like: “We are in a competitive situation with OpenStack. Customer is currently using Amazon EC2….. They are looking at moving from Amazon to VMware . . . → Read More: vCloud, OpenStack, Pets and Cattle There has been some turmoil lately in the industry when VMware announced that wanted to join the OpenStack community. In the last few days Martin Casado (Nicira co-founder and now Chief Network Architect at VMware) was quoted in a few interviews for the plans VMware has to integrate, evolve and position the Nicira technology. . . . → Read More: VMware, Openstack, Nicira and the T Theory vCloud Director 5.1 has introduced a fair amount of new functionalities. One of those is a change in the resource allocation models. I have tried to capture those changes from vCloud Director 1.5 to 5.1 in a couple of tables. For those of you that are new to vCloud Director it may be a . . . → Read More: vCloud Director 5.1(.1) Changes in Resource Entitlements (Updated) In the last 3 years I spent most of my time advocating that the cloud world is marching at a (very) different pace based on where you are and who you are. If you are a professor consultant working with the like of Google, Facebook and such your vision of the world may . . . → Read More: Cloud and the Three IT Geographies (Silicon Valley, US and Rest of the World) |
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