During the back-end of 2012 and earlier this year, I was involved in a fairly substantial VMware vCloud Plan and Design engagement that required integration of a number of different VMware and 3rd Party products.  In particular a level of integration was required between VMware vCloud Director (vCD), vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and consumer virtual machine workloads.  This was required in order to offer advanced management...

Introduction In recent months I’ve been involved in a project with Gary Blake to implement one of, if not the, first vCloud Director Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.  The design is based upon the solution described in the VMware vCloud Blogs written by Chris Colotti and Duncan Epping.  In order to provide a slick automated solution, I was keen to leverage the power of Windows PowerShell (PowerShell) and VMware vSphere PowerCLI (PowerCLI). ...