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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By : Yohan Wadia
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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

This book is intended for cloud engineers or administrators who wish to explore and gain hands-on experience of VMware vCloud Air. To make the most of this book, it would be beneficial to have a bit of familiarity with basic VMware vCloud concepts, but no prior experience is required.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Index

VMware vCloud Air Data Protection


Besides the traditional vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery service, VMware also provides an optional business continuity solution using VMware vCloud Air Data Protection. In this section, we are going to have a brief look at what vCloud Air Data protection service is and how you can leverage it for your environment.

To begin with, vCloud Air Data Protection was formerly a vSphere product suite, designed for taking image level backups of virtual machines and virtual appliances. Today, the product does the same thing but more or less with the vCloud Air environment. It leverages EMC's Avamar product's technology to perform agent less virtual machine backups to disk.

Let's have a quick look at some of vCloud Air Data protection's features and benefits:

  • Self-service portal: You can configure backups of all your virtual machines and vApps using a single self-service based portal. The Data Protection tool is installed and configured on an on-premise datacenter, but it...