Notes from VMworld Day 2 – vCloud and Xsigo

August 31, 2010 By mike 1 Comment

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In my previous post about the keynote today I had blogged about Steve’s announcement of vCloud. There are a number of KBTV articles from VMware on the topic already:

Also, since I work for a Xsigo partner, I thought I would mention Xsigo’s annoncement. Previously the only option you had for the server interconnect was InfiniBand, however they are adding Ethernet to the mix so you will be able to choose from the following interconnects:

10 Gbps Ethernet (32 ports)
24 Gbps InfiniBand (24 DDR ports)
40 Gbps InfiniBand (20 QDR ports)

The Ethernet option (utilizing either 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps ports) is an interesting one, not requiring you to add in an adapter card can allow you to do end-to-end connectivity for under $500 per server – a fraction of the cost of a CNA. I wonder how long before 40 Gbps will be supported for the interconnect?

I spent a good part of the day in the labs again today, I’ve done most of the vCloud ones as well as the View ones. The dashboard in the lab area is pretty cool:

It’s probably difficult to see (click the picture for a larger version) but you can in the top left gauge there has been over ~60,000 VMs deployed total. On the top right gauge there has been almost 6,500 labs started, bottom left shows there is currently about 400 VMs active and the gas gauge on the right shows they are almost at capacity.