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vSphere 4.1: Performance Improvements

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Last week I took my first vacation in a year and a half.  I had not missed a single day of work in 18 months.  So last week, when I was galavanting through Spain and running terrified, screaming, and covered in sangria through the streets of Pamplona, VMware made its biggest announcement in over a year: the launch of vSphere 4.1.  My old team put out what looks to be a wonderful “What’s New in Performance” paper so I want to take a few minutes to add my thoughts to some of the great work VMware has done.

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Maximum Concurrent VMotions

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A VMware customer and attendee of a talk I gave at a performance roundtable asked me for a preview of unreleased features*.  When I talked about the amazing improvements to VMotion that would enable as many as eight concurrent VMotions the customer said, and I am paraphrasing here, “Yawn.  I can already do that.”  Really?  I had no idea customers could do this.  As it turns out, many of us at VMware did not know that customers knew how to do this.

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