VMworld is run on a killer ESX cluster(s) (So how’d it go?)

From a very interesting tweet:
@MeghanAtBMC: VMWorld infrastructure is running 37,248 VM’s on 776 ESX servers w/total of 37TB of Memory 348TB Storage

SWEET!!!

The next set of questions coming from someone that manages a datacenter:

Can we get a whitepaper/post mortem report on:

How this datacenter ran during the show?
What issues did you see?
What worked well?
How many VMotions happened?
How many HA events occurred?
How many IOPS occurred?
How many last minute change requests for more CPU, Memory, Disk, Extra VMs come through?
What kind of change management was in place for this?
What were the support policies?
How many admins were involved?
How many hack attacks occurred?
What kind of security issues were seen?
What kind of repair worked happened?
What was Lab Manager used for?
What was View used for?
What versions of everything that were used?
Did you have any FT VMs? How did they work?

Any other questions datacenter folks would be intersted in? I know I’m just itching to know.

Posted on August 31, 2009 at 8:47 pm by iguy · Permalink
In: VMware · Tagged with: datacenter, vdc, VMware, vmworld

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Written by rich
on 31 August 2009 at 9:43 pm
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I’m actually thinking the same thoughts. When/if I find out I’ll let you know!
Written by Damien
on 1 September 2009 at 11:02 am
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I’m interested in “Why?”

Couldn’t a smaller, less power hungry infrastructure have provided the necessary demo capability? What was the average CPU utilisation of those 37000 VMs?
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