Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Air - Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
- Contents
- About This User's Guide
- Introducing Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Navigating Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Overview
- Overview of Storage Tiers
- vApp Overview
- End User Virtual Machine Access
- Sort and View Virtual Machines
- Create a Virtual Machine from a Template
- Create a Virtual Machine Without Using a Template
- Virtual Machine Power Operations
- Edit Virtual Machine Properties
- Adjust Virtual Machine Resources
- Add a Disk to a Virtual Machine
- Set Storage and Runtime Leases for a vApp
- Manage Virtual Machine Properties in vCloud Director
- Connect a Virtual Machine to a Network
- Change Network Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Connect a Virtual Machine to the Internet
- Log Into a Virtual Machine Guest OS with the Console
- Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Work with Virtual Machine Snapshots
- Managing Your Public Cloud Environment
- Capacity for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Geographical Locations
- About Gateways and Networks
- Virtual Data Center Overview
- Create a Virtual Data Center
- Edit or Delete a Virtual Data Center
- Virtual Data Center Permissions
- Catalogs and Templates Overview
- Manage Catalogs in vCloud Director
- Role-based User Account Management
- Add a User to Your Service
- Edit User Details
- Delete a User from Your Service
- Reset a User's Password
- Managing User Groups
- Metering Resource Usage
- Index
Workloads
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Acquire self-service resources needed for testing new services or deploying against highly elastic
business demands.
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Operate across hybrid onsite and offsite infrastructure as you move workloads to production.
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Replicate test environments in the public cloud that immediately meet production standards.
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Transition workloads developed in self-procured environments into core IT infrastructure with no
additional investment of time and effort.
Centralization
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Ensure site-to-site consistency and untethered workload portability by using a centrally managed
resource pool.
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Replicate network configuration and context between onsite and offsite clouds with a synchronized
service catalog. (The Content Sync feature of vCloud Connector allows customers to synchronize the
Catalog for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand with any existing vSphere folders or vCloud Director
catalogs.)
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Utilize pre-built logical templates, services, and application components to assemble application
blueprints. (Using the same templates across different clouds ensures greater simplicity of processes
between onsite and offsite cloud infrastructures.)
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Standardize on one platform for all applications. The broad operating system and application support,
combined with the uniform performance across virtualized applications that VMware provides make it
possible to standardize on one platform on-premises and off-premises.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand supports the legacy applications you are running today as well as
your future applications.
Comparison Between Offerings from vCloud Air
In addition to Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, VMware provides other vCloud Air offerings.
VMware provides the following subscription-based services that require resource commitments via the
standard IT procurement process:
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vCloud Air – Dedicated Cloud
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vCloud Air – Virtual Private Cloud
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vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery
Dedicated Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud
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Dedicated Cloud: provides a single tenant private cloud with dedicated computing servers, layer-2
network isolation for workload traffic, persistent storage volumes, and a dedicated cloud management
instance. Infrastructure capacity can be allocated to a single virtual data center or multiple virtual data
centers.
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Virtual Private Cloud: provides a multi-tenant virtual private cloud with logically isolated resources on
a shared physical infrastructure, configured as a single virtual data center with networking resources. A
customer cannot have multiple virtual data centers with a Virtual Private Cloud service because the
Virtual Private Cloud service is provided as a single virtual data center.
For information about Dedicated Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud, see the vCloud Air User's Guide.
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