Free Month of vCloud Air
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If you sign up now you get a free month: http://vcloud.vmware.com/service-offering/special-offer?src=SMB_SW.
It may be out of the budget for most, but I thought I would mention it.
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Thank you for letting us know! I am sure someone around here will be interested.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Thank you for letting us know! I am sure someone around here will be interested.
I spoke with VMWare yesterday about vCloud, and the cool part about it is you can supposedly use it even with the Essentials bundle (or so they tell me - just needs vCenter). Their vCloud Director plugin allows you to move VMs from your environment to their cloud and vice versa very easily. You purchase the plan and get a specific set of resources but can put unlimited VMs up there.
They also have the Disaster Recovery as a Service piece that is for backups if people want that.
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vSapphire will let you do that too at a much lower cost. Will let you move into Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Azure, etc. as well, not limited to VMware. Can use it with HyperV, XenServer, OpenStack, KVM, you name it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
vSapphire will let you do that too at a much lower cost. Will let you move into Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Azure, etc. as well, not limited to VMware. Can use it with HyperV, XenServer, OpenStack, KVM, you name it.
I had never heard of that. Thanks for the tip!
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@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
vSapphire will let you do that too at a much lower cost. Will let you move into Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Azure, etc. as well, not limited to VMware. Can use it with HyperV, XenServer, OpenStack, KVM, you name it.
I had never heard of that. Thanks for the tip!
You know the people involved. It's the brother of a certain Mace
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
vSapphire will let you do that too at a much lower cost. Will let you move into Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Azure, etc. as well, not limited to VMware. Can use it with HyperV, XenServer, OpenStack, KVM, you name it.
I had never heard of that. Thanks for the tip!
You know the people involved. It's the brother of a certain Mace
I had to reread that as I thought of a mace as in something you hit people with... I've been in Skyrim for too long.
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Are there any real benefits of using vCloud instead of Amazon or Rackspace?
What makes them different/better?
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@nadnerB said:
Are there any real benefits of using vCloud instead of Amazon or Rackspace?
What makes them different/better?
or are they just relying on their name to sell their service?vCloud is a product that you buy, it's not a service. VMware has a cloud service, but that isn't it. This is for on premises clouds. Amazon and Rackspace are hosted products only. Rackspace's on premises name would be OpenStack.
I would definitely not choose them. [VMware] Small time. Amazon is the top player for a reason. Rackspace is by far the best for the SMB market. And I mean by far.
The reason to use VMware's public cloud is so that you can transparently move workloads from a local VMware cloud to the public one. Not really a great idea anyway, this means you've not understood cloud and screwed up already.
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@scottalanmiller said:
vCloud is a product that you buy, it's not a service. VMware has a cloud service, but that isn't it. This is for on premises clouds. Amazon and Rackspace are hosted products only. Rackspace's on premises name would be OpenStack.
I would definitely not choose them. [VMware] Small time. Amazon is the top player for a reason. Rackspace is by far the best for the SMB market. And I mean by far.
The reason to use VMware's public cloud is so that you can transparently move workloads from a local VMware cloud to the public one. Not really a great idea anyway, this means you've not understood cloud and screwed up already.
Thanks, that clears that up.
