Tag Archives: #cloud

VMware on AWS Quick Hits

Posted on August 31, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at   AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to start – each 2 socket/36 core, 512GB RAM, … Continue reading →

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vCloud Director and guest customization

Posted on November 5, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

Guest customization (specifically Windows 2003) is done a little differently in vCloud Director. While you still create a properly-named directory tree containing the sysprep files, you then run a script that combines all of the Windows sysprep files into one … Continue reading →

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Another reason to carefully choose your cloud provider

Posted on April 4, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

PC World has an article about a service provider losing data due to a disgruntled former employee. Does your provider actually back up your data? Or do they just tell you they back up your data?

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