Cloud

[Vichu]

All,

I have vCenter server4, vSphere 4 and vSphere client installed on my systems. Couple of VMs(bothe Windows and Linux) running on this environment. I have questions here,

1. How do I form a cloud using vSphere?

2. Then, How do I give access to external people to get an advantages of cloud environment ?

[depping]

first of all I think your question and the info you gave is very limited. A cloud is not something you can form or a tickbox you can tick within vSphere. Cloud computing is a concept and there are tools / software that can help you realise a cloud, but there is more to it than just a single tickbox.

Duncan

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[Vichu]

ohh... Sorry I am very new to cloud computing. People around me talking about private cloud and public cloud. So I thought that something which we need to form. One more question here is, How do I let the people, who do not have vSphere environment, access my tools/applications in a cloud environment?.Meaning, Software as a Service (SaaS).

[depping]

No need to apologize. How would you normally have people access their applications? Forget about the term "cloud" for now, forget about the "virtual layer" ... these are merely concepts / tools to provide a service to your end customer. Normally a customer would never touch the vSphere environment or client, they don't even need to know it's running virtual. Giving access to a desktop or an application doesn;t change because of the virtual layer.

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[HughBorg707]

I just had a flashback of "the information superhighway" phrase. People mean well but the media just hypes it so much... 😕

[HughBorg707]

Vichu,

Are you hosting anything different than you were before or just moving your current infrastructure to virtual?

[Vichu]

Yes we planned to move our infrastructure to virtual...So I am just experimenting things in vSphere (evaluation) before we move.