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INTRODUCTION
This post details results via our comprehensive testing (October-November 2008), which was executed for a Healthcare client’s VDI implementation project. The IT engineers and managers selected the VMware Virtual Desktop Manager as its Desktop Broker. And at project completion, the client should have at least 2,000 Desktops running as virtual machines using 48 ESX Servers (HP Blades). Completing the architecture is Cisco Networking Gear and EMC Celerra Storage, using iSCSI as the transport protocol to provide the underlying infrastructure framework. Per our client’s request we have evaluated the Pano Logic solution and we are sharing the results here.
PANO LOGIC POSITIVE ASPECTS
Pano boasts an ultramodern, innovative design that is appealing to the eye.
I recently upgraded VMWare Workstation 6.5 on my Ubuntu Linux notebook. A few things I’ve noticed so far:
So far, so good. If things change, I’ll be sure to post updates.
For those of us that prefer to script our installs instead of creating hand crafted environments, you’ll be thrilled to see that VMware has addressed a pretty annoying bug that has existed in 3.5 regarding vSwitch creation. No more jumping through hoops to make vmnics active. From the release notes :
Network adapters lose bonding during scripted installation
The esxcfg-vswitch -L command now works as expected and with the same functionality as in 3.0.x.During a scripted installation, the following two commands did not result in a bonded pair of active network adapters on virtual switch VS_VM1. Instead, vmnic3 became the active adapter and vmnic4 became the standby adapter.
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic3 VS_VM1
esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic4 VS_VM1
I did a twitter post the other day talking about a “small 50 server virtualization project” that I’m in the assessment/design phase with a client right now. A fellow twitterer, @jasonboche sent me a tweet reminding me that every server that is virtualized has a positive environmental impact. So, I decided to run some numbers on one of our largest server virtualization projects this year and the results really are a great reminder that what we are doing is important.
We have one client that we have virtualized about 1,000 servers this year alone. Using VMware’s Green Calculator, check out the results.
Now, for the Environmental Impact: The project has the equivalent of planting 20,000 trees, taking 1,500 cars off the highway and nearly 8.9 million pounds of carbon emissions.
For those of us who focus on virtualization consulting and have been around awhile, we sometimes do forget that our efforts go beyond data center and organizational efficiency and have bigger positive impact than just technology and business.