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