We came a long way to get to where we are standing right now. Finally, this is the time to expand our scheduling into the cloud by using Control-M for Cloud Control Module. In this section, we are going to introduce two cloud environments, that is, a public cloud based on Amazon EC2 and a private cloud based on VMware ESX/ESXi.
Amazon EC2, that is, Elastic Compute Cloud is one of the most popular public clouds out on the market that offers on-demand virtual computing resources and charges machine usage based on hourly rate. VMware, of course, is the most well known virtual machine platform software vendor. In our example, we will register an Amazon EC2 account and have a local VMware ESX/ESXi environment.
Once the two environments are configured, we will be taking the Filtering records part of our file processing job flow into the private/public hybrid cloud. In this case, we not only free up the resource on the existing hosts (that is, ctm-demo-linux-02
and ctm-demo-win-01...