It's Just Another Layer » vdc http://itsjustanotherlayer.com Virtualization is a layer in software. What are you abstracting away from? Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 VMworld is run on a killer ESX cluster(s) (So how’d it go?) http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2009/08/vmworld-is-run-on-a-killer-esx-clusters-so-howd-it-go/ http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2009/08/vmworld-is-run-on-a-killer-esx-clusters-so-howd-it-go/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:47:07 +0000 iguy http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/?p=208 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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