10 Things You Can Do On VMware vCloud® Air™ That You Can’t Do On AWS-EC2
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That You Can’t Do On AWS-EC2
10 Things You Can Do On VMware vCloud® Air™
vCloud Airsolves problems many
businesses have with today’s
cloud services. It reduces
trade-offs enterprises make
when transitioning to the cloud.
Here are 10 advantages vCloud Air offers over AWS-EC2.
vCloud Air includes hot standby
redundant capacity to maximize the
uptime of your application. It’s free
and requires no configuration.
Free automatic availability monitoring and fast VM restart
The service doesn’t offer redundant
capacity, or automatic monitoring, or
fast VM restart. In fact, new instances
require a bit of configuration to get
the same MAC and IP address.
AWS-EC2?
Performance monitoring
VMware performance management
tracks the overall performance and
health of all servers free of charge.
When overloaded, vCloud Air
automatically live migrates VMs to
a server that can handle the capacity.
The performance
of AWS-ES2? Many say unpredictable, painful,
time-consuming and expensive.
As a result,
customers devise creative strategies
to juice performance. For example:
they start more instances than they
need, conduct performance tests to
see which ones perform well, and kill
off the poorly performing instances.
Non-disruptive maintenance
vCloud Air offers non-disruptive
maintenance using live migration to
move VMs to redundant server capacity,
prior to performing server maintenance.
Your instances go bye-bye. There’s
even an API to tell you when this
will happen.
What happens during AWS-EC2 preventative server maintenance?
vCloud Air allows you to create a VM of any size
With vCloud Air, you get to choose
exactly the VM dimensions you want –
any ratio of CPU, memory and disk up
to the physical maxima.
Unlike AWS-EC2,
there is no need to overbuy CPU and
process a complex decision tree of 29
instance choices to figure out which
one you need.
Resize a VM or disk while it’s running
With vCloud Air you can add vCPU,
memory and disk space to any running
VM – a lifesaver for teams managing a
critical application that needs more memory,
disk or CPU ASAP. For AWS-EC2 users,
that’s not an option.
Ensuring scalability requires
guesswork. Guess wrong
and you start over.
AWS-EC2 instances cannot be expanded
Strong Network I/O
With vCloud Air, strong I/O performance
comes with the territory. All vCloud Air servers
have 20G of aggregate network bandwidth.
This is 20X more bandwidth than EBS
optimized instances of AWS-EC2.
vCloud Air provides the acceleration of
flash and high performance disks
without the extra cost.
High disk performance
With AWS-EC2, you settle for a lower performing
SATA-based EBS.
Bring your own VM without conversion, with full app vendor support
vCloud Air can run any vSphere® VM,
Workstation or Fusion without converting
to a proprietary format and supports
5,700 VMware certified apps.
With AWS-EC2,
you must convert the VM, and that only
works for a very small set of operating
systems. Convert it again if you want to
export the VM.
vCloud Air can be managed by any of
the VMware management toolset, third
party tools that support the vCloud API,
or offer generic REST API adapters.
Use the management tools you use today
With AWS-EC2,
you need a second management
tool set, unique to AWS-EC2, and a
separate team with unique skills to
manage AWS environments.
vCloud Air makes it possible to stretch an
Ethernet (layer 2) network from your data
center to your cloud, making it appear as a
single flat LAN segment. This comes in handy
for apps that can’t be easily reconfigured.
Stretch layer 2 networks between your data center and vCloud Air data centers
AWS-EC2 offers no layer 2 stretched networks,
only IP (layer 3) network connectivity.
Understanding what will make your
applications run most efficiently is critical
for enterprises moving to the cloud.
Not all cloud services are the same
Learn More about extending
your vSphere data center to vCloud Air