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VMworld 2009: Building the VMworld Datacenter
In order to power all the technical labs and demos at VMworld, VMware created a behemoth on-site data center. See a timelapse video of this monster being built after the jump.
Jeff James
August 31, 2009
1 Min Read
All the demos and hands-on labs at VMworld 2009 require lots of computing power, so VMware created a massive on-site data center to power all of this computing activity.
Early technical issues prevented some show attendees from working on some hand-on technical labs earlier this week, but this massive datacenter has been happily churning through workloads since then.
A small handful of vendors worked with VMware to build the datacenter, including Cisco, HP, Xsigo, EMC, NetApp, BMC Software, Chip PC, and MDS. Here are some vitals on the datacenter itself:
776 ESX Servers
37 TB RAM
6,208 processor cores
348 TB disk storage
37,248 VMs
28 server racks
528 KW electricity usage
VMware created a timelapse video showing the construction of this monster, which you can see below.
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