Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

vcloud

vCloud Suite 5.1 available

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No I didn’t set my alarm clock like Eric Sloof, just to be one of the first to post it… hence the reason this is “late”. But I got some more lined up for you though in the upcoming days. Now that the vCloud Suite 5.1 is available. Make sure to start your download engines and prep to upgrade. Before you start downloading, make sure to hit the launch page. I created a nice short URL for it

VMware NOW – Get the Latest Info on VMware Product Launches:
http://vmwa.re/vcloudnow

Download links:

What’s new docs:

 

INF-STO2192 – Tech Preview of VMware Distributed Storage

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I could visit just one session on Tuesday so I decided I would attend a session which is on a topic that I love “Software Defined Storage”, aka vCloud Distributed Storage. This session was hosted by Christos Karamanolis and Kiran Madnani. Christos is one of the lead engineers on the project and Kiran is the product manager, both VMware employees.

Before I lay down what their session was about, note that this was a technology preview. No commitments have been made when or even IF this will ever be released… but as the demo looked so promising I figured it was worth sharing.

[Edit: Cormac Hogan published the demo, worth watching!]

Kiran started out with explaining the journey to Software Defined Storage. Awesome features he mentioned were Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, SIOC, Profile Driven Storage, vSphere Replication and more. Kieran made a statement which I can only agree with….

The world is changing, compute resource keep growing, data keeps on growing!

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Update: VMware vCloud Director DR paper available in Kindle / iBooks format!

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I just received a note that the DR paper for vCloud Director is finally available in both epub / mobi format. So if you have an e-reader make sure to download this format as it will render a lot better then a generic PDF!

Description: vCloud Director disaster recovery can be achieved through various scenarios and configurations. This case study focuses on a single scenario as a simple explanation of the concept, which can then easily be adapted and applied to other scenarios. In this case study it is shown how vSphere 5.0, vCloud Director 1.5 and Site Recovery Manager 5.0 can be implemented to enable recoverability after a disaster.

Download:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.epub
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.mobi

VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study paper published!

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Yesterday the paper that Chris Colotti and I were working on titled “VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study” was finally published. This white paper is an expansion on the blog post I published a couple of weeks back.

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.

I hope that those architecting / implementing DR solutions for vCloud environments will benefit from this white paper. If there are any questions feel free to leave a comment.

Source – VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study

Description: vCloud Director disaster recovery can be achieved through various scenarios and configurations. This case study focuses on a single scenario as a simple explanation of the concept, which can then easily be adapted and applied to other scenarios. In this case study it is shown how vSphere 5.0, vCloud Director 1.5 and Site Recovery Manager 5.0 can be implemented to enable recoverability after a disaster.

Download:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.epub http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-infrastructure-resiliency.mobi

I am expecting that the MOBI and EPUB version will also soon be available. When they are I will let you know!

Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study – vSphere + vShield App

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A white paper which I have worked on extensively has just been published. The case study takes a design / architecture approach and lists design considerations, requirements and assumptions throughout the document. I want to thank the people who worked with me on this document: Aidan Dalgleish, Frank Denneman, Matthew Northam, Venky Deshpande and Cormac Hogan. Below you can find more details… don’t forget to download it! I made sure it was available in various formats so each and everyone of you can read it on its favorite device.

Source – Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study

Description: The VMware Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study Series was developed to provide an understanding of the various components of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite. The goal is to explain how these components can be used in specific scenarios, which are based on real-world customer examples and therefore contain real-world requirements and constraints. The VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite consists of five technologies that together expand the capabilities and value that customers can realize from a virtualized infrastructure. This case study focuses on vSphere 5.0 and vShield App 5.0.

EPUB: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/cloud-infrastructure-architecture.epub
MOBI: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/cloud-infrastructure-architecture.mobi
PDF: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/cloud-infrastructure-achitecture-case-study.pdf