VMware Announces Service Enhancements For vCloud Air

With the recent rebranding of their vCloud Hybrid service as vCloud Air, VMware continues in their effort to simplify the use of their Disaster Recovery solution, VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, while providing extended capabilities to their service. VMware announced several service enhancements to their DR as well as announcing the general availability of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand a service that allows customers to instantly signup for services online.

With the recent rebranding of their vCloud Hybrid service as vCloud Air, VMware continues in their effort to simplify the use of their Disaster Recovery solution, VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, while providing extended capabilities to their service. VMware announced several service enhancements to their DR as well as announcing the general availability of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand a service that allows customers to instantly signup for services online.

While there are many benefits to cloud computing, disaster recovery is a key benefit. It offers a secure backup of data without the investment in physical infrastructure. VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is an independent service offered to vSphere customers, you don’t have to be a vCloud Air subscriber. vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is easy to set up, uses the same management tools used with vSphere, and scales up to 500 VMs.

New service enhancements include:

• Native failback support – provides seamless reverse replication from vCloud Air data centers to a customer’s environment, as well as support for offline data transfer via physical disk, to accommodate larger environments.
• Multiple recovery points – enables multiple point-in-time copies of replicated VM(s), allowing you to roll back to earlier snapshots of your data center environment in the event of corruption or the need to recover to an earlier set of data.
• Self-service automation – leverages vRealize Orchestrator via a plug-in for vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, to define and deploy recovery playbooks that help streamline failover operations.

Availability

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is available now. vCloud Air customers can get instant access and VMware is running a special where users get the first month for free. The offer ends March 26, 2015. 

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