TA3461 – IO DRS: Tech Preview for VM Performance Isolation

This is a very new area of research at VMware.  Only about 2 years ago.  Since thm is is a Tech Preview it has no roadmap for when it will be available.
The Problem:
Many different workloads hit the same set of disks/arrays/spindles etc.   Low priority processes that run ad-hoc or other times will cause higher priority [...]

VMworld 2009 – Keynote P4

vSphere is the basis of all the improvements and technology over the years.  Based on Software Mainframe (for those of you over 40), the Cloud (for the under 40 crowd) and decides the best idea is to call it The Giant Computer.   The reason this all works is because of VMotion.   It is the basis [...]

VMworld 2009 – Keynote P3

View also includes the Mobile Technology dicussion.   Mobile Technology is longer term working for functionality.    Visa Product Development is up on the stage.   He sees this space as a huge innovation going forward.    Current development is significantly complicated.   Easing functionality for development is extremely interesting for Visa. 
The Visa demo uses Windows Mobile on a developer [...]

VMworld 2009 – Keynote P2

A major goal of the View initative is to have the same image while providing the best experience possible with WAN, LAN and Direct machine speeds.    For WAN/LAN the solution will be PCoIP.   The performance numbers are very impressive and no numbers.    This protocol has shown some excellent capabilities over WAN connections.
The other piece for [...]

VMworld 2009 Day 1 Wrap Up

I went to two other sessions and they just weren’t anything I was intersted in so I left early and spent time talking with engineers from various companies about their products.   So far I’m not really too wowed by much of the products.   This fits into my feelings about the keynote after it was done.   [...]

VMworld 2009 – Opening Keynote – Announcements

Something new.. from VMworld 2009 Opening Keynote
vSphere:
VMware-Go - Helps get ESXi configured and setup for SMB customers.
vCloud:
vmware virtualized – vCloud certified enterprise ready services.  
vCloud Express – Rapid and inexpensive light workload ready functionality by service providers.  (Nice demo on Terremark services)
VMware vCloud API – vApp deployment, Inventory listing, vApp operations, Catalog Mgmt, and more
SpringSource

Key goal is [...]

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 [...]

3 days till VMworld 2009

Woot.  3 days until I hit San Francisco and begin the awesomeness that is VMworld.   I’ve got my schedule packed and for a first I’m getting asked to take a peek of a couple different vendor products from people internal to the company.   These folks want to get input on if these products will be [...]

AppSpeed update

I’ve had the AppSpeed demo setup and running in one of my clusters.   When you get the demo temporary license, its for 16 cores worth.   My smallest environment to test in is 160 cores deep.
I figured no issue, I’ll just see what I get for a couple different apps to see how it works.   That [...]

Restarting Mgmt Agents is dangerous

Once again I’m reminded that going in and doing /etc/init.d/mgmt-vmware restart and then /etc/init.d/vmware-vpxa restart is fairly dangerous and should only be done as a LAST resort.
A co-worker was removing old NFS mounts and replacing them with new ones.   So same named NFS mount was being used.   He did an esxcfg-nas -d and then an [...]

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