Hello All
It has been a very long time since I have posted as I have started a new job that has completely consumed my life for the last 6 months.
I have been working on NetApp and VMware pretty much exclusively so expect to see lots of posts with NetApp focus as well as the traditional VMware topics from now on.
It’s good to be back!
Paul
It has been confirmed that FCoE has been ratified as a standard by T11.
I’m personally very excited, because I work with a lot of NetApp kit and NetApp are one of the very early adopters of FCoE, so I should be getting my hand on some exciting new kit soon.
If you want to read the T11 paper confirming the standard, then check it out here:
VMware have just announced the 10 highest rated sessions that will be repeated this afternoon (Thursday). Here’s the list in order:
#1 – TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell
#2 – DV02 – VDI versus Terminal Services
#3 – AP02 – Best Practices for Deploying Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 on VMware Infrastructure
#4 – AP11 – Performance Best Practices
#5 – DC21 – VMware – Standardised Platform Provisioning
#6 – AP01 – Best Practice for Successfully Virtualising Active Directory
#7 – DV07 – Server & Storage Sizing for VMware View
#8 – AP05 – SQL Server Performance on VMware: est Practices, Recommendations, Tuning & Troubleshooting
#9 – TA11 – Best Practices to Increase Availability & Throughput for the Future of VMware
#10 – TP12 – Consolidation of Performance Sensitive Applications
I managed to see most of these, but missed a few, so I will be getting in there if I can. Check this photo here to see what is repeated when and where.
I can highly recommend Brian Madden’s presentation (#2) as I saw it first time round and it was great.
You can now view the full keynote of Dr. Stephen Herrod on the VMworld website here.
Some excellent stuff, particularly the demos from Bruce & jerry Chen.
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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