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10/24/2007 VMworld 2007 - V3i - Comments
I recently attended and presented at VMworld 2007 in San Francisco. It was an absolutely awesome conference with lots of great sessions, tons of attendees, and also fun afterhours parties. One of the big announcements of the show came during Diane Greene's keynote on the first full day of the conference where the embedded version of ESX 3 – V3i – was shown running on the unreleased / unannounced Dell r805 server. A slimmed down version of the VMware ESX server hypervisor is booted from an internal flash card. On stage Diane and Mark Jarvis from Dell showed how quick this combination boots and how easy it was to create and run VMs. The entire keynote has been made available on the VMworld website. (The demo starts at about 10:45 and ends at 17:15 )
Look for more information about the r805 soon.
I presented a super session on virtualizing Exchange 2007 with Kong Yang. We had a great audience and almost everybody stayed until the end where we had lots of great questions. Key findings that we presented were that good performance was attainable with Exchange 2007 in VMs at all sizes that we tested (500, 1000, and 2000 users). We also found that performance of Vmotion and VMware HA was better with the 500 and 1000 user VMs than with the 2000 user VMs. The complete presentation is available on the wiki on the VMware and Exchange page.
Since returning from the conference I spent some time trying to understand the performance issues that we found with the large 2000 user VM in the Vmotion and HA tests. It turns out that we were not leaving enough memory available for the ESX host, which resulted in swapping. Kong and I have written a white paper with the details and it will be posted soon.
Todd
Look for more information about the r805 soon.
I presented a super session on virtualizing Exchange 2007 with Kong Yang. We had a great audience and almost everybody stayed until the end where we had lots of great questions. Key findings that we presented were that good performance was attainable with Exchange 2007 in VMs at all sizes that we tested (500, 1000, and 2000 users). We also found that performance of Vmotion and VMware HA was better with the 500 and 1000 user VMs than with the 2000 user VMs. The complete presentation is available on the wiki on the VMware and Exchange page.
Since returning from the conference I spent some time trying to understand the performance issues that we found with the large 2000 user VM in the Vmotion and HA tests. It turns out that we were not leaving enough memory available for the ESX host, which resulted in swapping. Kong and I have written a white paper with the details and it will be posted soon.
Todd
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