VMworld 2009. A View from the Dutchies

After an 18 hour trip we are finally in San Francisco. Great city to be in, especially if you have never been there before. We took a cab from the airport to 5th Street where our hotel is. After some shopping and a very great steak it's time to get some sleep. The time difference is 9 hours, so at the time we went to bed, 9 PM, for us it is 6 AM.

And the a short sleep to 4AM. That's called a jet lag.

Today we are going to bring up the Nehalem servers, make sure ESX runs and upload our virtual servers that we use for VirtualStorm.

The servers are fully installed and configured, so that we are sure that we only have to upload them and boot them.

Also the VirtualStorm image is prepared and we have over 30GB of apps with us to show people what we are exactly doing. All apps are packaged with SVS admin and we used some scripts to make everything work like it should.

Then we are going to clone the master image 500 times because we need 500 images.

In total we have 3 TB of diskspace for our images, so we will be able to spin up between 1200 and 1400 images without any problems.

The new version of the DVDS management console enables us to do a 20 second job to tell the system how many images we want and how we want them to be configured. Then it depends on VirtualCenter and the hardware how long it takes to spin them up fully.

We should be able to spin them up and make them ready in less then 20 minutes.

I'll let you know.