Rapid Provisioning With vCloud Director 1.5

StratoGen recently deployed vCloud Director v1.5 to offer our clients an even better user interface to manage their virtual datacentres. v1.5 is quicker at a multitude of tasks but one of the biggest improvements has been in the time taken to deploy a virtual machine from a template. Previously when provisioning a virtual machine, the entire template disk was replicated causing a significant wait whilst the data was copied to your new virtual machine disk. A new provisioning method is available in v1.5 called linked clones, whereby a delta disk is created with a link back to the original template disk. Only changes between your virtual machine and the template master disk are stored resulting in a much quicker provisioning time.

You can of course choose to provision a full clone should you wish.

Fast provisioning can be found in the Virtual Datacentre properies. A tick in the ‘enable fast provisioning’ box is all that is required.

Provisioning other resources are also significantly faster with this upgrade.

StratoGen were one the first VMware hosting providers globally to build out a platform based on vCloud Director and the product continues to go from strength to strength. These performance improvements are a welcome addition to an already powerful and sophisticated application.

For further information please download the vCloud Director v1.5 user manual from http://www.stratogen.com/support/downloads/vcd_15_users_guide.pdf


StratoGen USA is Go!

New for 2012, StratoGen have launched our US vCloud Powered SHARP VMware Hosting platform, hosted in the Fortrust datacentre in Denver, Colorado.

The recently redesigned StratoGen website now caters for US based customers under the StratoGen.com URL.

US Dollar pricing for StratoGen VMware Hosting Services can be found on StratoGen.com, and customers signing up for a 7 day free trial on StratoGen.com are automatically provisioned on our US vCloud Director platform.

US customers can contact a StratoGen solutions consultant on our USA toll free number 1-877-778-2260, or via our LiveChat service.

US customers benefit from the same enterprise class infrastructure as the UK StratoGen cloud, with tier 3 datacentre facilities, high performance NetApp SAN storage and VMware Enterprise Plus licensing.  And international customers can now choose if they want to be hosted in the UK, US or both.

We’re excited about 2012 and look forward to working with you on your VMware Hosting solution requirements!


Visit StratoGen at IP Expo

StratoGen will be demonstrating our ‘vCloud Powered’ SHARP VMware Hosting service at IP Expo next week, Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th October.

Come and visit us on Stand H45 in the VMware Partner Zone, opposite the Veeam Cloud Lab.  You can pre-register online if you have not done so already.

Our VMware certfied staff will be on hand to walk you through the interface and to answer any questions you may have about hosting your applications on StratoGen’s cloud infrastructure.

We’ll show you just how easy it is to get online and start building and deploying cloud resources right from your browser.


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