Comments on: Eyeing the Cloud, VMware Looks to Double Down On Virtualization Efficiency http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/ Fri, 24 May 2013 20:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: codebilly http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-292055 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:55:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-292055 Architecture VMware has been gradually building is now public.

http://www.scribd.com/VMware-Cloud-Utility-Computing-System/d/38902307

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]]> By: When It Comes to Virtualization, Are We There Yet? http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-237935 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:05:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-237935 [...] beyond the battle between VMware and Citrix for enterprise server and desktop virtualization, SMBs are accelerating their virtualization plans [...]

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]]> By: John Nicholson http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-237933 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:18:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-237933 nicholasorr,

I’ll agree on the IO there but I did find a reasonable solution that doesn’t cost 40k. Datacore makes a product (San Melody) that for about $1200 will run turn an ordinary windows server into a RAM caching iSCSI SAN. I run RAID 6 a real I/O killer across 9 10k drives and still can push 10k I/O Per second. I’ve got 24gigs of DDR3 in the thing so it will cache entire small VM’s. I’ve had windows XP VM’s boot in 6 seconds, and have no problem running databases in a virtual environment.

Alternatively if its just one or two databases thats killing your I/O SSD’s are dropping in price and will eventually fix the I/O problem.

]]> By: Sebastian Rupley http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-237932 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-237932 @nicholasorr, yes while I was at VMware they actually talked quite a bit about IO and about optimizing memory for large numbers of virtual machines per CPU. It’s an important issue.

Sebastian

]]> By: Daniel, marketresearchmedia.com http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-237931 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:34:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-237931 While surveying the federal IT markets we found that VMware has virtually no competition in governmental sector, especially in cloud computing applications.

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]]> By: nicholasorr http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/eyeing-the-cloud-vmware-looks-to-double-down-on-virtualization-efficiency/#comment-237929 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:50:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=94720#comment-237929 I’ve never found the CPU to be the limiter with VMWares products. It always IO that let me down and serious IO costs serious dollars ;)

And windows on Vmware is a IO hog. I can run multiple linux vms in vmware ok as soon as I added a windows box performance went to hell…

Though for the price of serious IO I can get enough physical boxes that the cost savings only appear in power bills. However 200w per headlesss desktop class machine is not much…

Anyway good one VMWare for getting 16 VMs per CPU, just make sure you have super IO to back up the super CPU :P

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