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...

This afternoon I just received confirmation that the paper Alan Renouf and I have been working on, has finally been published.  The paper is titled “VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study – Automation with Microsoft Windows PowerShell and VMware vSphere PowerCLI”. This paper is intended to compliment the VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study paper published previously by Duncan...

Abstract Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. This session will include a tour of a real world vCloud DR solution deployed at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS). Throughout the session there will be detailed guidance on how both the management and resource clusters were designed, deployed and automated. Furthermore the details of how SRM in conjunction...

Abstract Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. This session will include guidance, examples and demonstrations of the use of VMware vSphereTM PowerCLI (PowerCLI) to automate the recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. In particular the session will focus on the automation of the recovery steps for vCloud Director managed vApp workloads, that cannot...

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). ...