My blog finally backed online!! Due to a updating issue on PhotoVPS infrastructure, my virtual machine ran into unstable since Monday. I didn’t notice it till Wednesday. The virtual machine got intermittently network connectivity issue, PhotoVPS engineers can only temporarily fix it. I was struggled by the situation, finally I decided order a new virtual machine on Krypt. Krypt is ideally place for me since they are VMware certified partner, they helps VMware improves vCloud products and develops in public cloud market. The network performance is also the greatest from North American to China in US service providers, they have dedicate bandwidth to China Telecom.
Krypt provides two user interface for cloud users. One is my.krypt.com, you can submit ticket, order new product or manage account profile on the website. Another one is cloud.krypt.com, it’s native vCloud Director interface. You can manage virtual machines on it. Krypt offers two cloud models. The so called Cloud Server is actually virtual machine, you can manage power, VMware Tools and VM Console by vCloud Director interface if you order it. They also offer Cloud Pool, also call Resource Pool in VMware. You get dedicate CPU, memory, disk and network resources if you order it. For example, you order 2 vCPU, 6 GB vRAM, 100 GB disk and 1 TB network bandwidth. Then you can create new virtual machines in vCloud Director in cloud.krypt.com and allocate the computing resources to each machine as long as you have adequate computing resources. You also get ability to upload ISO to build OS.
Compare to other cloud competitors in the market, I feel VMware product is more reasonable for enterprise customers. To be a end user of web hosting market, vCloud interface is too complicate than OnApp. I think the biggest benefit of vCloud is integration, it’s able to integrate with enterprise level applications such as ServiceNow, Remedy and SAP. But for me, I’m VMware guy, I like it, I familiar with it. So I choose it. 🙂
Krypt also provides backup solution based on Veeam. Entire virtual machine can be protected on demand or schedule. You are able to recovery entire virtual machine, single virtual disk or single file on demand. I don’t have much experience on Veeam, but I tested their performance monitor tools long time back. It’s a nice company that they listen to customer’s voice and change quickly if there is a problem in their products. If you are the one like me just create WordPress blog website, I would recommend you try ValuePress, it’s alternative to backup blog just start from $5/mo. The starting plan satisfies personal blog like mine.
Okay, that’s all I have at this moment, I’m so glad I have a vSphere based virtual machine on public cloud. It’s low end virtual machine but enough for a newbie geek. 🙂
Chinese version
博客终于恢复了！从周一开始虚拟机一直不稳定，由于工作忙碌，到周三我才发现。这是由于PhotoVPS的基础架构升级导致的，我的虚拟机不停地断网，PhotoVPS的工程师只能临时修复一下。一天断N次，实在受不了，在Krypt订购了一个虚拟机。Krypt对我来说是一个理想的地方，他们是VMware的认证合作伙伴，他们帮助VMware完善vCloud系列产品并且通过这些产品拓展公有云市场。另外在北美的运营商中他们家到中国的网速是最快的，他们有到中国电信的专有线路。
Krypt为云用户提供两种界面。一种是my.krypt.com，在这里可以提交工单、缴费、管理账户等。另外一个是cloud.hrypt.com，这是一个vCloud Director原生界面，在这里可以管理虚拟机。Krypt提供两种云产品，所谓的Cloud Server其实就是虚拟机，你可以通过vCloud Director界面管理电源、VMware Tools、VM控制台等。另外一个叫Cloud Pool，在VMware也叫做资源池。这个产品提供专有的CPU、内存、存储 、网络资源等。比如你订购2个CPU、6 GB内存、100 GB存储、1 TB带宽流量，然后在vCloud Director界面里你可以创建虚拟机并且给每个虚拟机分配这些资源。而且你还可以上传ISO自助进行系统安装。
和市场上的其他竞争对手相比，我觉得VMware的产品更适合企业级应用。做为网站服务器的最终用户，和OnApp相比vCloud的界面显得太过复杂。我认为vCloud的最大优势是整合，它可以和包括ServiceNow、Remedy、SAP等企业级应用进行整合。但是我个人还是喜欢用VMware的产品，因为我比较熟悉。:-)
Krypt也提供基于Veeam的备份解决方案，你可以自助或者设置计划备份整个虚拟机，恢复方式有自助式的整机恢复、磁盘恢复或者单个文件恢复。对于这款产品我了解的不多，只是多年前测试过他们的性能监控工具。这家公司不错，他们能够倾听客户的声音并做出积极回应。如果你和我一样只是在虚拟机上跑个WordPress博客，我倒是建议尝试一下ValuePress，每个月只要5美元的博客备份方案。最低价格的方案已经足够个人博客用了。
OK，这就是我现在知道的全部，非常高兴我有了一台基于VMware技术的公有云虚拟机，一台非常低端但是足够新手极客用的虚拟机。哈哈！