VMware Cloud Provider Blog

Introducing CloudSpot: Our New Podcast to Keep you Cloud Ready!

Guy Bartram posted May 17, 2019

Introducing CloudSpot: Our New Podcast to Keep you Cloud Ready! What is CloudSpot? CloudSpot is a new podcast that discusses the latest cloud technologies from the Cloud Providers’ perspective and covers new products and updates from the VMware Cloud Provider team. The podcast series is not a detailed technical product pitch (although we will cover Read more...

Announcing VMware CloudMasters 2019 – LATAM Edition

Fernando Escobar posted May 15, 2019

We are pleased to announce that CloudMasters Event (formerly Delta Force for Cloud Providers) has been launched for LATAM geo. This is our Premier Partner Enablement initiative, where our VCPP/MSP specialists will be sharing not only the foundations of the VMware Cloud Provider Platform (composed by VCPP and MSP) but also conducting deep dive Read more...

Usage in VMware Cloud Provider Hub Series – Part 2

Subha Shankar posted May 3, 2019

Usage in VMware Cloud Provider Hub Series Part 2 – Deep dive into detailed hourly usage report Understanding usage is key for providers to plan and study the consumption of cloud services of their end customers in VMware Cloud Provider Hub. In the previous blog, I covered the different features of Usage for Provider and Read more...

Usage in VMware Cloud Provider Hub Series – Part 1 Highlighting features of usage

Subha Shankar posted May 3, 2019

Usage in VMware Cloud Provider Hub Series Part 1 – Highlighting features of usage VMware Cloud Provider HubTM offers Managed Service Providers consolidated view of usage for all their customers, which helps them with customer lifecycle management. In this blog series, I discuss the different features of usage as offered in VMware Cloud Provider Hub Read more...

vCloud Availability 3.0 Blog Series: Cloud Access, Ownership, and Visibility

Chris Johnson posted May 1, 2019

VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv) allows for self-serviceability by the provider and tenants for disaster recovery services. When working with the customer to set up the service, it is important to understand the scope of responsibility for the service and how it will be managed. This blog will focus on different factors impacting replication in Read more...

vCloud Availability 3.0 Blog Series: Managing vCloud Availability Access

Chris Johnson posted April 25, 2019

By default, the vCloud Availability UI extension and APIs are enabled for all tenants. Tenants who don’t currently subscribe to the service will see the vCloud Availability extension as well. This can lead to confusion on behalf of the customer. Luckily, in vCloud Director, there is a way to manage extensions. In this blog, we will walk Read more...

vCloud Director Embraces Terraform

Linas Virbalas posted April 18, 2019

This year marks a focused support for HashiCorp Terraform in VMware vCloud Director (vCD). The refreshed Terraform vCloud Director provider enables administrators and DevOps engineers to define vCD infrastructure as code inside Terraform configuration files. This makes it an efficient automation and integration tool. We already released two new provider versions this year (v2.0.0 and Read more...

vCloud Availability 3.0 Blog Series: Introduction

Chris Johnson posted April 11, 2019

Until now Disaster Recovery as a service for Cloud Providers has been broken up into unique solutions: vCloud Availability C2C and vCloud Availability DR2C. Unfortunately, these solutions brought with them disparate interfaces and infrastructure. This has led to a lot of bloat and confusion for cloud providers to sort through. The recent release of vCloud Read more...

Global Load Balancing with VMware Horizon and Amazon Route 53

Sean Massey posted April 3, 2019

A few months ago, Andrew Morgan in the EUC Business Unit wrote a great blog post on using Amazon Route 53 to provide Global Load Balancing Services for VMware Horizon. The example in Andrew’s post showed a failover situation between an on-premises VMware Horizon environment and a Horizon environment running in VMware Cloud on AWS. Read more...

vCloud Availability 3.0 – Lightboard Overviews

Daniel Paluszek posted March 26, 2019

The team is excited to be releasing vCloud Availability 3.0 very shortly as this is a comprehensive approach to Disaster Recovery as a Service for our cloud service providers. We wanted to provide some overview lightboards of this new version of vCloud Availability and what’s possible within this new solution set. Introduction to vCloud Availability 3.0 Read more...