The Cool Wall…
Well, just like Top Gear has a cool wall (of hot and not hot cars). It looks like VMware VMworld has its own cool wall of hardware. I picked this up from:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/08/28/vmworld-2009-on-site-data-center/
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August 28th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I wish I could be there
The question I could ask, are you going to follow this up next Friday with your own ranking of stuff that’s Sub-zero to Not Cool?
August 31st, 2009 at 9:33 am
Wauw, that’s quite a lot of hardware! Very green IT I see… You know you can virtualise that stuff allowing multiple VMs on a single hardware box (up to ratios from 1:1 to over 100:1). That way you don’t need all that valuable floorspace and save the environment using less cooling and less power. Just my 2 cents…
September 1st, 2009 at 2:09 am
It might LOOK cool, but whoever designed the storage around it screwed up royally. BOTH of my labs were ruined because apparently someone put everything on 1 LUN. At least that’s what I heard.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Yeah, I went to have a look around the back. I wanted to see if UCS would really reduce cables – but security wouldn’t let me get there. Perhaps they don’t trust me!!!
September 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
[...] now you’ve seen the pictures, video (VMworldTV), and posts about the hardware in the datacenters that hosted the VMworld 2009 Labs. You should already know [...]