- Make the most of Role-based User Account Management.

- Plan for Performance

- Keep it cost effective

IaaS – vCloud Air

• Create a plan for VLAN/routing and firewall, prior to implementing it in vCloud Air.
• Only provision compute and storage resources that you need (CPU/memory/disk).
• Use VMXNET3 for networking.
• Make VMs public-facing (NAT) or give internet access to VMs, only if its required as public; IPs are chargeable.

RaaS – vCloud Air

• Upgrade the on-prem environment to the latest vSphere (vCenter/ESXi/VMFS/VMXNet3 etc) and make sure it is compatible with the vCloud Air. You can make maximum use of all the additional supported features.
• Install the latest version of vSphere Replication.
• Make sure that the on-prem VMs that you would like to replicate in cloud are not over-provisioned with the compute resources or with the storage.
• Work out the on-prem firewall and NAT rules that you would like to replicate in RaaS vCloud Air.