Create a vCloud Air (vCloud Director) endpoint Note: If you can remember what we covered in a previous post here , Infrastructure Admins usually create the endpoints within vRA. So login to the vRA portal using as the infrastructure admin (if you are using the default tenant, the URL is “https:///shell-ui-app”.

Let’s look at the vCloud to vCloud VPN setup as that is the easiest thing to configure in the world with both ends are vCloud Director. Configure vCloud 2 vCloud VPN. Select your Edge Gateway in your vCloud organization and select the VPN tab. Once there select “Add” and you will see the following screen. VMware vCloud® Air™ is a secure, dedicated hybrid cloud service operated by VMware, built on the trusted foundation of vSphere®. The service supports both existing workloads as well as new application development, giving IT a common platform to seamlessly extend their data center to the cloud while leveraging the same tools and processes vCloud Air is a public cloud computing service built on vSphere from VMware. vCloud Air has three "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) subscription service types: dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud, and disaster recovery. vCloud Air also offers a pay-as-you-go service named Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand. vCloud Air is a significant opportunity for partners not only because it is the fastest path to cloud, with the broadest operating system and application support, but vCloud Air also provides a new service to offer end users who need to expand beyond their current data center, while driving down the risk and cost of ownership. vCloud Air delivers Infrastructure as a Service, advanced security Sep 14, 2015 · Learn about enhancements made with cloud computing routing for vCloud Air Network Services including supporting BGP and OSPF protocols as well as supporting multiple types of VPNs. The key here is the setting for IPsec VPN which uses the special prefix __SSL_VPN_DESTINATION in the description: For more information about VMware vCloud Air, visit vcloud.vmware.com, and keep an eye on the blog for upcoming tips and best practices for using vCloud Air.

VMware has announced it is to sell its cloud offering based on the software-driven data centre (SDDC), vCloud Air, to French cloud computing provider OVH in what was described as ‘the next step in vCloud Air’s evolution’. OVH, with more than one million customers and 260,000 servers deployed, is a long-time VMware partner.

The default setup for gateways and networks varies in vCloud Air depending on which service you purchased—Dedicated Cloud service or Virtual Private Cloud service. See Types of vCloud Air in vCloud Air User's Guide for information about the service options. With both services, you configure networks for each virtual data center. Let’s look at the vCloud to vCloud VPN setup as that is the easiest thing to configure in the world with both ends are vCloud Director. Configure vCloud 2 vCloud VPN. Select your Edge Gateway in your vCloud organization and select the VPN tab. Once there select “Add” and you will see the following screen.

The key here is the setting for IPsec VPN which uses the special prefix __SSL_VPN_DESTINATION in the description: For more information about VMware vCloud Air, visit vcloud.vmware.com, and keep an eye on the blog for upcoming tips and best practices for using vCloud Air.

VMware vCloud Air is an Infrastructure as a Service offering based on VMware’s vCenter. VMware renamed its cloud computing service, which was formerly called vCloud Hybrid Service, as part of a larger rebranding strategy that coincided with VMworld 2014. VMware vCloud Air Advanced Networking Services and Hybrid Cloud Manager enable a seamless cloud experience. Advanced Network Services enable cloud administrators to achieve unprecedented security and isolation in the hybrid cloud through features such as isolation with micro-segmentation, dynamic routing protocols, SSL-VPN, and Layer-7 Load VMware vCloud Air Network Program Pricing Model, and may be updated by VMware at any time. To have access to these Products, a Service Provider must have a valid rental agreement with a VMware Aggregator as of or after December 9, 2014 for One feature example of VMware NSX built-in VPN functionality is the Layer 2 virtual private network (L2VPN) service. With the L2VPN service, vCloud Air Network providers implementing VMware NSX can provide customers with the ability to extend Layer 2 networks from their on-premises data centers to the VMware NSX environment of their chosen Dec 01, 2014 · When you Login into vCloud Air you are presented with a basic control panel. As you can see from the main dashboard, the User interface is quite simple, easy to understand and use. The dashboard shows the number of Virtual Data Centres, the number of virtual machines and public IPs allocated. He also takes you through the steps of authentication configuration, VM migration to vCloud Air, and VPN connection verification. This course is also an exam preparation resource, as it covers the topics in the Administer and Manage vSphere Virtual Machine domain of the VCP-DCV 6 exam.