VMworld 2009 – Opening Keynote – Tod Throws the Gaunlet
Today there are 30 Fortune 1000 companies who are not using VMware. The gaunlet has been thrown. Free VMworld passes if you can get them to start using VMware. This was thrown by Tod Nielsen, Chief Operating Officer of VMware.
update (1 Sept 09 10:31PM): The list of 30 is as follows – Thanks to Anthony [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Keynote Thoughts
Ok.. Its proven. No-one in the industry can keep up with Scott with blogging. You want a live blog go here.
The Cloud. Business Complexity. Give businesses Flexibility.
The great question is how do you do this? Much of the point is “Simplify so things can happen since it is so complex today.” People understand the current [...]
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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 [...]
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VMworld 2009 – Opening Keynote Part 1
No pictures today. However sitting here with awesome individuals such as Jason Silva, Mike Laverick, Dominc, Scott Lowe and the ever present John Troyer. Information to be coming as the keynote progresses.
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VMworld 2009 – Pre Opening Keynote
Sitting here talking to some of the bloggers around the sphere and Scott Lowe and couple others had some good fun. Just like the concept of VDI was driven by companies such as myself and others with a true business need. We offer up the next great idea for VMware from the community.
vBlogger – Now [...]
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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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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 [...]