VMware's vCAC?

[Paul Bell <ar...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

No sooner did I get started with jclouds and VMware's vCloud Director, than
I am reminded by a colleague about VMware's new "vCloud Automation Center."

Is vCAC something that will affect the development of jclouds, i.e., will
you have to program for it? At this point I know very little about vCAC. A
cursory read of various blogs suggests that it can be used to stand up a
Cloud without any VCD at all. Other articles suggest that vCAC is more of a
presentation & orchestration layer built atop (and abstracting resources
from) VCD.

Thanks.

Cordially,

Paul

Re: VMware's vCAC?

[Paul Bell <ar...@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Bk.

I also found this:
http://up2v.nl/2013/08/29/vmware-vcloud-director-is-approaching-end-of-life/
which,
I think, quotes from the VMware blog you referenced.

A cursory read of these articles suggests that VCD will continue to exist,
but it's being targeted to the service provider realm. VMware seems to be
positioning vCAC for their "enterprise customers."

-Paul




On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Bk Lau <bk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This link might help:
>
>
> http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/09/vcloud-director-convergence-and-transition-plan-whats-the-scoop.html
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org>wrote:
>
>> No sooner did I get started with jclouds and VMware's vCloud Director,
>>> than
>>> I am reminded by a colleague about VMware's new "vCloud Automation
>>> Center."
>>>
>>> Is vCAC something that will affect the development of jclouds, i.e., will
>>> you have to program for it?
>>>
>>
>> At this point you know more about vCAC than certainly I do! I have no
>> idea how it may or may not impact usage of vCloud via jclouds; all I can
>> say is that, as far as I know, nothing vCloud or vCAC-related is
>> specifically on the jclouds roadmap for 1.7.x at this time.
>>
>> ap
>>
>
>

Re: VMware's vCAC?

[Bk Lau <bk...@gmail.com>]

This link might help:

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/09/vcloud-director-convergence-and-transition-plan-whats-the-scoop.html


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org> wrote:

> No sooner did I get started with jclouds and VMware's vCloud Director, than
>> I am reminded by a colleague about VMware's new "vCloud Automation
>> Center."
>>
>> Is vCAC something that will affect the development of jclouds, i.e., will
>> you have to program for it?
>>
>
> At this point you know more about vCAC than certainly I do! I have no idea
> how it may or may not impact usage of vCloud via jclouds; all I can say is
> that, as far as I know, nothing vCloud or vCAC-related is specifically on
> the jclouds roadmap for 1.7.x at this time.
>
> ap
>

Re: VMware's vCAC?

[Andrew Phillips <an...@apache.org>]

> No sooner did I get started with jclouds and VMware's vCloud Director, than
> I am reminded by a colleague about VMware's new "vCloud Automation Center."
>
> Is vCAC something that will affect the development of jclouds, i.e., will
> you have to program for it?

At this point you know more about vCAC than certainly I do! I have no  
idea how it may or may not impact usage of vCloud via jclouds; all I  
can say is that, as far as I know, nothing vCloud or vCAC-related is  
specifically on the jclouds roadmap for 1.7.x at this time.

ap