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By: vinf

vinf — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:05 +0000

Afraid they didn’t cover this and it didn’t get asked in the Q+A – anyone else know?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:39:03 +0000

That’s a wonderful look inside of the VMware machine! One glaring question I would have though is:

How do they back it all up?

I’ve found many great products to backup just VMware VMs, and I’ve also found others that do a great job of picking up applications, like Exchange. I haven’t really found one that does both.

I’d love to hear what they use internally.

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By: Datto

Datto — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:06:28 +0000

Site plan and other basic information about VMware’s new datacenter in Wenatchee, WA:

http://www.greenm3.com/2008/08/opportunity-to.html
http://www.greenm3.com/2008/07/the-virtual-dat.html

Datto

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By: vinf

vinf — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:33:44 +0000

Nice one Dean, appreciated.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:27:14 +0000

WA = Washington state

By: vinf

vinf — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:43:37 +0000

I think this was on the slides, I’m waiting for a copy; in terms of the ratio I think that was averaged across the business. Oracle instances had a lot of server containment going on for example and he did say they recycled a fair bit of hardware and there were no dates attached to that 10:1 ratio, I think he said 4-way dual-core blades (so 8 cores/blade).

There was a bullet point about when sometimes it’s more power efficient (and thus cost-efficient) to purchase new, higher density CPU blades.