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.

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 datacenter in a shipping container.

Next Up:  Commodity Datacenters.   Everything the Cloud wishes it could be.