The below diagram provides integration of vSphere components (vCAC, vCO, NSX, APPD): APPD - vCloud Application Director automates application provisioning in the cloud including deploying, configuring, and updating the application's components and dependent middleware platform services on infrastructure clouds. vCAC - vCloud Automation Center provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers or business users… Read More »
NetApp created a Project Shift which allows customers to change the virtualization platform their VMs run on without migrating any data (of course VMs have to be located on NetApp storage). Shift currently supports Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Physical (V2P) but also Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations between Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V… Read More »
Recently I focus on Network Virtualization and I decided to take VCP-NV exam. Fortunately I passed! As VMware says: The VCP-NV certification validates ability to install, configure, and administer NSX virtual networking implementations, regardless of the underlying physical architecture. With the knowledge validated by the VCP-NV certification, you will be prepared to install and administer… Read More »