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 [...]

Posted on August 31, 2009 at 8:47 pm by iguy · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Cisco’s now a full service stop

Cisco’s throwing their gloves into the ring for server hardware. Now they can offer Server Hardware, Datacenter Experts (strong in Server Virtualization with their investments into VMware) and Networking Hardware.  All they need now is to offer some Storage Virtualization Appliance on their Server Hardware and they can start to offer the whole [...]

Posted on January 21, 2009 at 7:58 pm by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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