vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center. It includes dedicated infrastructure resources, disaster recovery, and also applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease.
As mentioned earlier, it is extremely important to protect applications from downtime. vMotion and Fault Tolerance are significant local availability enhancements, but in case of a catastrophe, it is important to have a disaster recovery plan in place as well. With vSphere 6.0, Disaster Recovery to cloud services will be available.
Specifically, users will be able to, for the first time, failover and failback data and workloads to and from VMware vCloud Air, utilizing vSphere replication. Furthermore, multipoint in time recovery offers flexibility and choice with respect to recover point objectives (RPO). Disaster Recovery to the Cloud services reduces the...