THE PROS AND CONS OF CLOUD COMPUTING…by dStringer

In researching the information for this article, it occurred to me that quite a few folks still had a limited understanding of what "The Cloud" or "Cloud Computing" really was.  So we'll start off with a basic definition...

In the simplest terms, "Cloud Computing" means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive.

Attempting to import a VM larger than 2 TB into vCloud Director 5.6.3 from vSphere gives a data truncation error message

By Marco Alcala

This morning, I attempted to import a virtual machine with a hard disk larger than 2 TB into vCloud Director from vSphere.  When I clicked the import from vSphere button, I got the following error message:

[ 5594fe5e-7ad3-429b-a42e-5544bad64d69 ] could not execute query
- Data truncation

Using SQL profiler against my vcloud database, I found that when the following query was executed, SQL server threw an 8115 arithmetic overflow error.