Six Steps to a Hybrid Cloud

1. Select your cloud provider We begin building our hybrid cloud by selecting a cloud provider. For example, By visiting vcloud.vmware.com you can view a list of Service Providers that participate in either the vCloud Powered or vCloud Data Center...

Hybrid Cloud

Lets start by looking at what the definition of Hybrid Cloud is. This article from searchcloudcomputing certainly sums up most peoples view. A hybrid cloud is a composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud....

Vcloud Director Ipad App doesn't work!

The app located at https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/vmware-vcloud-client-for-ipad/id499333133?mt=8 is only for VCD 1.5 and is no longer supported.Till VMware takes it down, beware of downloading it. If you are looking for an alternative for Vcloud Director version 5.x, there is an android app located at...

Using PowerCLI to retrieve information on snapshots in your vSphere environment

I have a powershell script that emails me daily each VM that has a snapshot and the snapshot name. It integrates with powerCLI.I use it to clean up obsolete snapshots.Here is the script.Get-VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Out-File "C:\scripts\VMList.txt"Get-Snapshot...

How to migrate from VCenter 4.1 to VCenter 5.5

1. Install a 64-bit Windows OS on a new vCenter server. Lets call this new server "vc5" and let's call the current vCenter 4.1 server "vc4". Make sure that the hostname/ip address of vc5 is properly registered in DNS -...