Is Your Blade Ready for Virtualization? Part 2 – Real Numbers
OK, so my last post brought on a blizzard of remarks questioning some of the validity of the data presented. I used what I was told during a presentation was a “Gartner recommended” configuration for a VM. My error was that I could not find this recommendation anywhere, but the sizing seems fairly valid, so I went with it. I went back to some of the assessments I have done and took data from about 2,000 servers to come up with some more real-world averages. I wanted to post these averages tonight. Remember what I said previously: This is just a set of numbers. You must ASSESS and DESIGN your virtual infrastructure properly. This is only a small piece of it.
I apologize for the images instead of tables, but I spent way too long trying to get tables to lay out properly in Wordpress. Click on the images for larger views. I can post the raw data if someone wants to look at it, but I have to work on stripping away proprietary data first. So, here we go:
)will be authoring this masterpiece. I don’t want to quote a title yet because it may change a few times over the next few months but the focus of the book will be about VMware virtualization in the enterprise covering vSphere 4. Not to give too much away but our book will not just be a follow this and do this type of book. We will be focusing heavily on the following topics:
