With the recent experience I had on the deployment with vSphere 4 and PowerVault MD3000i, I found there are plenty of room you may able to further fine tune to improve the performance of the storage and virtual infrastructure. Before this, the initial deployment was done by default configuration without any fine tune yet, and I found that the storage performance looks little bit slow. Therefore, I had decided to further research and fine tune everything we had to improve the performance.
I just got the official release of vSphere 4 today and finally got it work on my test lab. 1st thing before I upgraded my ESX servers is I need to upgrade my vCenter. If you are running RC now, you may not able to manage the official release vSphere 4 host by RC version of vCenter you had. I reinstall fresh for my vCenter 4 on Windows 2003. Since is a test lab, I do not build the DB on SQL Server as I did for production. I am using the default sql express as part of the installation.The installation process will not be much different compare to RC, but the resource utilization of the vCenter 4 will make the different.
• Improve availability and uptime for business critical applications
• Reduce capital and operating costs by more than 50 percent
• Cut new server deployment time from weeks to hours
• Automate operations to improve IT responsiveness
Join VMware, along with leading alliance partners, as we unveil the latest technology breakthrough that will take your vision to new heights of efficiency, choice and control.
When
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Time: 8.30am – 12.30pm
Where
Venue: Hilton Kuala Lumpur
Grand Ballroom A,
Level 6
3 Jalan Stesen Sentral
Kuala Lumpur 50470, Malaysia
Agenda
Time Topic
8.30am Registration
9.00am Welcome Address – Presented by: VMware
9.15am Virtualization takes another giant leap with VMware vSphere 4 – Presented by: VMware
10.30am Refreshment break
10.45am Solving today’s challenges with vSphere 4 – Presented by: VMware
11.20am Enabling a Unified Virtualized Datacentre – Presented by: Cisco
11.40am Partnering with Technology leaders to build data centers of the future – Presented by: EMC
12.00pm Unlocking the value of vSphere 4 – Presented by: VMware
12.30pm End of Session Read more »
I read through a lot of articles this week and spoke to numbers of users and friends who are the current VMware customers and future potential customers, and I found there are numbers of questions we need VMware to provide a better and clear answer to all of us. While we are excited with the new features from VMware vSphere, but the licensing model they apply now is killing the happiness of the customers.
Technodrone had highlighted couples of the important points that stated by the official document from VMware and I am absolutely agree that VMware need to answer these questions. Now it had started another heat discussion which turn the happy customers to become an unhappy customers soon as you will be forced to pay more if what Technodrone stated is correct. Existing enterprise users and new enterprise users will be forced to be upgraded to enterprise plus version to keep the system running, and I think VMware has to clear this up ASAP.
As the new licensing model from VMware vSphere 4, it clearly show that you may require additional 620USD per sockets to entitle yourself for the enterprise plus if which come with 12 cores per sockets, host profiles, distribution switch and etc.
For existing enterprise users, they will no longer entitle everything as they did in the past due to the new scheme that will apply by vmware. There is a clause which stated by the official documentation released from vmware.
” vSphere Enterprise is available for USD$2,875 per one processor with up to six cores for use on a server with up to 256GB of memory. “
