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 [...]

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