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Getting Started with vCloud Hybrid Service

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== Getting Started with vCloud Hybrid Service ==

VMware vCloud Hybrid Services -> VMware vCloud Air

Hybridity - the seamless extension of on-premises infrastructure to the cloud that enables application and data mobility while retaining control via existing people, proceses, tooling, and automation

Service Categories:
* dedicated cloud
* virtual private cloud
* disaster recovery
* vPC (on demand) - announced this week

Data Center Locations:
* Santa Clara
* Las Vegas
* Phoenix
* Dallas
* New Jersey
* ?east coast?
* ?east coast?

Data Center Taxonomy:
* Compute
* Storage
* Network

Subscription based model

Core vCloud Air LaaS Principles
* we don't sell VMs
* we provision capacity (for you to provision VMs)
* you won't see a "vCenter interface" in vCloud Air
* We expose a portal along with vCloud APIs
* you can choose the commercial model (fixed, vs variable)
* you can chooes for dedicated or shared model
* configure mixing and matching cpu, memory, nics, disks as needed - no need to pick a T-Shirt size (like AWS/Azure)

Starting Points common on vCloud Air:
* dev/test
* extend existing apps - the bread and butter of vCloud Air
* disaster recovery
* modernize enterprise applications
* next generation applications

vCHS Login - http://vchs.vmware.com/
* will be changing to vcloud air url

vCloud Marketing and Pricing Website - http://vcloud.vmware.com/

vCloud On Demand Beta - http://vmware.com/go/ondemand

Questions:
* Is it "white" labeled? "you can create your own front end"? Huh? What is "white" labeled?

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