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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?