It started out with showing some interesting statistics to show that VM's have scaled from machine for low to medium intensive workloads all the way up to high resource intensive workloads. Especially the advances that have been made in IOPS, where a 3.5 infrastructure allows 100K IOPS the new vSphere will now support >200K IOPS and memory is brought up to 256GB. Some serious numbers allowing some serious workloads to be run. Another interesting point was the fact that virtualization allows us to really unlock the CPU horsepower as becomes evident when we take the example of a web farm.
This point is further underlined in the following slide, which shows the amount of mailboxes you can run on 1 server running the application on a single OS as opposed to running multiple OS images on the same server.
The VMsafe API is now a real product (well when vSphere is released). McAfee will have a product and others will follow. This being an example of what is possible when having a hypervisor in between the OS and the hardware having complete visibility of all IO events the app and subsequently the OS generates and providing the abilitiy to use that data for auditing purposes f.i.
The presentation then moved on to the possibilities of Cloud capabilities where the point was that a lot of engineering effort is going in the R&D necessary to make sure that workload can securely roam across federated clouds.
The vCloud plugin for vCemter was demo-ed, which allows administrators to have an integrated view of external Cloud resources. Allowing you for instance to move an App from your internal infrastructure to the cloud provider's.
On the View side, the PCoIP even 3D is now possible.
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