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We all know that the success of the cloud computing environment, is always required consistent, low latency and high speed network that will be provided by the Service Provider. Whether you like it or not, Service Providers are always be part of the IT infrastructure. We had seen many of the service provider are jumping into the cloud computing environment to provide hybrid and public cloud model which offer to everyone across the globe. It happen in NA, EMEA and APAC at the same time.

Mean while, the service provider had realized the business model of cloud computing will be totally different with the normal business they had done before, therefore they often require a strong IT background partnership to provide the technology consultation, venture business strategy and experiences to assure the success of the cloud computing they tried to offer.  NTT had announced to acquire Dimension Data since last week, which clearly state the combination of IT vendor and Service Provider. I believe this combination will allow the service provider to look into cloud computing which offer to the world.  With all this happen, we can clearly see the IT are on the way to turn the infrastructure into the service base model. Combination of IT and Service Provider become closer and closer, which is definitely helpful as both are infrastructure related and it may help to increase the quality of services from time to time. I believe the market is emerging on this area, which we will see more IT vendor partnership with service provider to offer the packages to the client, either with venture business or acquisition.

Significant Improve on Scalability, IO control for both Network and Storage, Active Directory Integration on Host level, up to 8 vMotion concurrent session at 1 time.

For short review as what’s new on ESX 4.1, you can refer to the official link here.

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Please find the full blog post from here.

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you can view more information from the official announcement here.

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Photo shot of the real environment which have 14 gigabits NIC Ports and 4 x 2 Gbps FC.

If you are going to adopt virtualization technology in your environment today, you should consider the comparison within gigabits and 10G Ethernet. Of course, for some environment which may not require 10G if the number of virtual machines and IO requirement are low, and I absolutely agreed that we shouldn’t over provision what you require in the IT infrastructure. But if you are looking for medium and large scale virtualization and consolidation, I will say that 10G Ethernet are the way to go from now. 10G Ethernet provide lower latency vs traditional gigabits Ethernet. It does solve the physical and virtual management on the networking perspective on virtualization. From operational standpoint, it simplified the data center by reducing the complexity from switch or storage management.

From VMware architecture, if you are currently on gigabits environment, you may end up create multiple vswtich, multiple DVswitch, or multiple uplink for different port group and VLAN. Well, no problem of doing this of course, but when the number of interfaces increase to 18 NICs per Server, you will spend hours to just plug in and trace all the physical cable 1 by 1. An example here for reference, if you have 2 x 10G Ethernet per ESX host, the implementation will be much more simplified. a DV switch for all port group require. Of course, you will maintain the standard best practices which split out the port group to multiple interfaces as usual. Of course you can applied QoS if you wish to do so, but in most scenario, you may leave it default.  Now, you have 20Gbps VS 18 Gbps, and the entire management from both physical and virtual are much more simplified. With Intel Westmere and AMD 12 cores technology, you will no longer looking at virtualize 10:1 per ESX host. I had generally see the users at least virtualizing 18 to 25 per ESX host as a minimum today. Network IO become more important now since the number of virtual machine per host are increasing.

Screen short of 2 x 10G Ethernet configuration with DVswitch.

There are also plenty of storage vendor out there supported 10G Ethernet interface for ISCSI and NFS both. Meant you can have your virtual machine network and Storage traffic both running on 10G Ethernet.

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I have couple of deals dealing with Ionix before, I believe the issue here is not the owner of the products, and they should focus to improve the knowledge of the sales and technical guy to brief the partner more. No doubt, Ionix is 1 of the greatest product out of the market, but in order to success, the education pieces to partner and users are important.

I will say is an ambitious move for VMware this week towards the cloud computing. Remember Ionix suppose to release the automation and management pieces for vblock, I am not sure whether it will still continue or they are some changes going to happen soon.

You can refer to the official link here for more information.

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Title: EPISODE 1 – Introduction & Your Virtual Environment
Start Time: Wed 03/02/10 06:00 PM (KUALA LUMPUR TIME)
Duration (minutes): 60

Call ID: 75046

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