Get Started With the vCloud Service Evaluation Beta Today!

The Wait Is Over – Get Started With the vCloud Service Evaluation Beta Today!

Good news – the waitlist for the vCloud Service Evaluation Beta has been removed! This means that users can now sign up today and get a public vCloud account in 15 minutes or less.

Announced last month, the vCloud Service Evaluation provides a quick, easy and low-cost way for you to learn about the advantages of a vCloud though hands-on testing and experimentation. All you need to sign up is a credit card and you can get your own public vCloud up and running in minutes.

The vCloud Service Evaluation has all the basics you need, including a catalog of useful VM templates, virtual networking, persistent storage, external IP addresses, firewalls, load balancers, the vCloud API, and more. A variety of pre-built content templates are also available (at no charge) through the vCloud Service Evaluation, including WordPress, Jommia!, Sugar CRM, LAMP stack, Windows Server, etc.

For a limited time, you can also use the promo code “VMworld50” for a $50 credit towards your vCloud environment.

Looking for support? Technical How-To Guides available on vCloud.VMware.com are perfect for new vCloud users looking for implementation assistance.

 

In addition, signing up for the vCloud Service Evaluation gives you access to the vCloud Service Evaluation Community, where users can ask questions and get answers directly from others in the vCloud community.

Your own vCloud is just a few clicks away – sign up for the vCloud Service Evaluation Beta (don’t forget to use the promo code, “VMworld50”) and set up your own vCloud today!

Re-Blogged from VMware Blogs and yoyoclouds.com .

What's new in VMware vSphere 5.1

Today VMware announced vSphere 5.1. This posting will give an overview of the most interesting new features.

vSphere 5.1 will be available September 11 2012 !!

Some highlights are as follows:

• Paul Maritz steps down as CEO after leading the company for 4 years. His successor is Pat Gelsinger
• VMware is focused on building the architecture for Cloud Computing which is called the Software Defined Datacenter
• vCloud Suite is announced, consisting of:
  • vSphere
  • vCloud Director
  • vCloud Networking and Security
  • Site Recovery Manager
  • vCenter Operations Manager
  • vFabric Application Director
  • vCloud API’s
  • vCloud Connector
  • vCenter Orchestrator

vSphere 5.1 is announced

vCloud Director 5.1 is announced

vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 is announced

vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 is announced

vRAM is no more! VMware will use a priced per CPU model

Cloud Ops, a new operating model for IT

Monster VMs will get bigger: 64 virtual CPUs and 1 million IOPS...per VM

Enhanced vMotion: Live migration without the need of shared storage!

New virtualized storage options

Create secure and logical networks using the new vCloud Networking & Security suite and VXLAN

vSphere 5.1 contains a full featured browser based vSphere Client, the Web Client

The vCloud Director interface is now vSphere Web Client style

The vSphere Web Client now offers great extensibility options for 3rd party vendors

Use vFabric Application Director for deploying complex applications

Existing vSphere Enterprise Plus customers will get a free upgrade to the vCloud Suite

VMware recently acquired Nicira, a company that virtualizes networking

More detailed information on all these announcements follow below:

VMware changed the features in the vSphere editions. The features below all are available now in Standard Edition as well.