I was surfing the web (as usual) a few days ago and an AWS presentation I spotted on SlideShare got my attention. Before I even begin, remember I (currently) work for VMware. I always try, on this blog, to be as open as possible and talk freely about what I really think. However feel free to turn on your bias filter if …

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In the previous blog post I provided a high level (101) theoretical overview of how resource monitoring and capacity management work in vCHS. Particularly how VPCs on shared clouds and vDCs on dedicated clouds differ from each others. Please read it for proper context. That was the theory. This blog post is about …

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This is blog one of a series of two. In these blog posts I will be introducing (at 101 level) how resource monitoring and capacity management work in vCHS. Before we get into the meat, it is important to understand how capacity is delivered to tenants in vCHS. Background One of the many things that make vCHS unique in …

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Probably my shortest blog post ever. I have lost track of what's happening in the EUC (End User Computing) space. Ironically I started this blog roughly 7 years ago with a post on virtual desktops (which is what I was working on at that time). Thinking about it, that was my shortest blog post ever. Not sure what …

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There are so many things I'd like to show and talk about here that I wanted to dumb down the title as much as possible. The trigger This all started (a long time ago) by realizing that with AWS you can deploy an EC2 instance and SSH/RDP into it in a matter of a couple of minutes with just a few clicks. With vCHS (and …

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Last week Alessandro Perilli of Gartner posted one of his controversial takes on cloud. In this particular post he, basically, pointed out that many CMP vendors aren't really selling a truly integrated cloud management platform software. Instead, they are proposing a rebranded old piece of software augmented with new …

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Warning: yes it is one of those highly philosophical posts. I spent the last 10 months or so "playing around" the vCloud Hybrid Service (aka vCHS). And I spent time "playing around" AWS (and Azure) too, for obvious reasons. There are a few things that are tangibly different between vCHS and …

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In this blog post I am going to describe the capabilities of the Load Balancing service in vCHS. This isn't going to focus on a specific use case (albeit I may refer to various software and solutions for examples). Instead I will focus more on the technical capabilities. I'd like to think about this article as the …

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In the vCHS API 101 blog post I have walked you through how to find out your vCHS API end-point(s) as well as how to navigate the structure with the RESTClient browser plug-in. This was more or less a read-only tour of the structure of the objects in the virtual data center. In this post I'd like to show you how to …

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When people think about vCHS they think about the vCHS portal. However we all know that an IaaS Cloud isn't (just) about a portal but rather about how you can consume it via APIs. In this post I am going to give you a brief 101 overview of how you can consume vCHS via APIs. Warning: the service will iterate quickly so …

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