The VMworld 2009 Lab Cloud
Yesterday we showed you how VMware designed and build an awesome infrastructure just for one week of VMworld 2009.
Awesome figures!
776 ESX servers, 37TB RAM, 6.208 cores, 348TB storage and 37.248 virtual machines. But what is this infrastructure used for?
Well VMware primarily uses it for the 10 different self paced labs they provide to VMworld participants. VMware build a vCloud which consists of the best of three solutions, vSphere, Lab Manager and a self service portal in which users can select the lab they want to follow and within minutes they get there own lab environment.
Depending one the wanted lab virtual machines can be provisioned within minutes, from 3 minutes for a simple two server lab environment to 7 minutes for a large nine server lab environment.
The system does not just provision basic virtual machines like Windows, but it provisions entire virtual ESX environments, with nested ESX server, storage, SRM and vCenter server.
If you want to know more just watch the interview Richard Garsthagen did below.
Related posts:
- Webcast: Security in the Cloud: Protecting Confidential Data in Cloud Computing Environments
- Building and maintaining the VMworld 2009 Datacenter
- VMworld Europe 2009 – vCenter Data Recovery hands-on lab
- Cloud vServices and Virtual DataCenter OS
- VMworld Europe 2009 – VMware announces vCenter Management Suite
