NetApp have released the eagerly anticipated Virtual Storage Console:
It does a lot of useful things for a 1.0 release, but probably the most important are the remediation options for the following:
- Storage adapter timeouts
- Multipathing settings
- NFS settings
- Guest OS disk timeout values
- Correct misaligned disk partitions
It is available for vSphere ESX & ESXi right now from the
NOW site. I will be providing more information on this useful utility very soon.
Enjoy!
NetApp, Storage
The key focus here was the future of VMware virtualisation, Dr. Herrod went on to point out that this area is particular exciting at VMworld Europe as so much of the development is being done in the VMware EMEA sites
vCompute
Stephen outlined that in the upcoming version of VMware – vSphere – a single VM has been able to achieve 23,000 total DB transactions per seconds – 250mbmb/sec of disks I/O, which equates to 510 disks spindles to saturate the I/O. Pretty impressive and as Paul Maritz said yesterday and Stephen reiterated today – “No excuses not to run databases in a VM”
Also an area that has been seen as a weak point for VMware is web workload. This can now scale so well that VMs have been tested and can scale up to the equivalent of serving 3bn page hits a day – eBay ‘only’ gets 1bn!
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VMware, VMworld
Finally, someone from VMware has used the name vSphere in public at an event that matters. I think that it has been fairly well known that this was going to be the name, even amongst those people that are not part of the beta program.
I have to be frank and say that I’m not sure how well received the name will be , but time will tell.
Other announcements included vCenter Heartbeat, which has cropped up a lot in the sessions lists. I will be attending the sessions covering this new functionality so will bring more information when I can.
VMware, VMworld, vSphere
