Harnessing the power of cloud with VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)
July 21, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Guido Soeldner.
Enterprises planning a diverse software-defined datacentre strategy – in which all compute parts and network and storage infrastructure are virtualised – need a tool to manage, automate and orchestrate their software-defined infrastructure. That is where VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) come in.
VMware vCAC is a software product for unifying cloud management. Enterprise IT can use it to provide and configure storage, network and compute resources across multiple platforms. It also enables administrators to automate application delivery and manage multi-cloud infrastructures…
The virtualisation and cloud provider released version 6.0 of vCAC in December 2013. It can be used to provision an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) self-service portal, in which the underlying compute resources can reside on VMware infrastructure or on a wide variety of other virtualisation or cloud systems, such as AWS, OpenStack, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS)…
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