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The Datacenter of the Future -- It's Already Here!

Data centers that support continuously available services floating across pools of servers and storage, provided with just the resources they need and automated recovery from any faults and disasters aren't just a daydream — that capability is here today with VMware Infrastructure. In this session we'll use a real VI3 environment consisting of four servers hosting 120 VMs to show you how the power of virtual infrastructure services like VMotion, DRS and Distributed Power Management can handle dynamically added server capacity, take servers offline for maintenance with no VM downtime, and power off servers during off-peak times to save energy costs. We'll monitor VMmark performance scores for the entire server pool throughout the demo to show how your data center capacity is immediately increased by simply adding ESX servers. Everything is done with commonly available x86 servers, storage, and off-the-shelf operating systems and applications. You'll see how you can deploy the agile data center of the future right now using the power of VMware Infrastructure.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Bruce Herndon( VMware,Inc. ), Eric Horschman( VMware, Inc. )

Mr. Horschman joined VMware in 1999 where, as Product Manager, he brought the first x86 server virtualization product to market and helped establish VMware as the leader in enterprise virtual infrastructure. His current role is Marketing Director in VMware's product marketing organization. Mr. Horschman has 20 years of experience managing the development and marketing of software and technology for virtualization, group collaboration, video conferencing and electronic commerce.

Bruce Herndon is a Senior Manager in VMware's performance team. He has spent the past four years developing benchmarks for virtualized environments. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.