Hybrid cloud with vCloud Availability

A new post about vCloud Availability capabilities for migrating VMs in a hybrid cloud environment is available at Pyxis's technical articles. Although it is in Spanish, I'll summarize it here.

Letting virtual machines migrate between clouds. Image of Engin_Akyurt at Pixabay

 

Summary

• With vCloud Availabiliy, downtime caused by virtual machine migration between sites, and it's respective rollback, can be greatly minimized. In our tests these tasks took ten minutes or less.

• Migration and replication tasks, and their corresponding rollbacks, can be self-serviced by the vCloud Director tenant.

• On-premise vCloud Availability setup is relatively easy for the on-premise vSphere administrator.

• On-premise vSphere administrator does not need to pay additional license fees.

• In order to use full vCloud Availability functionalities, vCenter 6.5 U2 is required on both ends.

Acknowledgements

• I'd like to thank Pyxis for their support.

You may check out the full article here