VM Density Thurs 13:30

Eric Horshman, Product Marketing Director

VMs per core / proc / host / cluster / cloud

- Expecting 24 core servers by end 2011, 64 cores by 2014
- By 2013 16GB DIMMs will cost the same as 2GB today
- 10GB networking will be common
- Conclusion is that servers will not be limiting VM density - the virtualization platform and management tools will be the defining factor
- Density dips as larger business critical workloads are deployed, but then it climbs again as larger hosts are deployed and features such as DRS are deployed.
- Use reservations mapped to real memory use by the guest VM
- Making comparisons between virtualization technologies (comment - of course, VMware is best, as you would expect from a VMware presentation!)
- Same comparison being made as the 09:00 session today - see notes below.

Planning and Printing

Route from airport to hotel on the Metro sorted and EasyJet boarding cards printed, DKK Krone in the wallet so all ready to go on Sunday.

Used the online scheduler to sort out my session plan, but still have 8 sessions with duplicate options - will have to see how it goes as the sessions are first come, first served.

Focussing on management tools, server density, learning how to effectively eliminate and further physical deployments and the private cloud / vCloud Director approaches.

Full week of networking opportunities with the VMware UK & Ireland visit to the Carsberg visitor centre on Tuesday evening and the main gathering on Weds featuring Bjorn Again - must remember to pack my white flairs (not!).