Real Time Monitoring of VMware Labs in Las Vegas with single pane of glass solution from Xangati
A new video from Xangati showing a single pane of glass real time monitoring solution for VMware vSphere 5.
This year in Las Vegas Xangati has provided a real time monitoring solution for VMware Labs. VMworld labs were clearly great success this year again.
To keep the labs run smoothly, a Performance Health Engine from Xangati provided real-time health analyses for all of the moving parts—across storage, network, servers, desktops, clients and applications. There were some enormous numbers presented from VMworld Labs:
13 415 Labs was served…
10 Bilion I/Os has been served
Total of 148,138 virtual machines were deployed (that’s 1.215 VMs/second!)
3 people between the attendees finished all 27 Hands on Labs!
The labs were geographically distributed Public Cloud model (3 Cloud based Datacenters – Las Vegas, Miami, Amsterdam) provided by Terramark, Colt and Switch Supernap. And there was 480 VDI desktops from , 50 lab hours, 24,000 lab seat hours….
A screenshot from the LabCloud Software monitoring the available seats:
And very important announcements too: The Hands On Labs will be going public in 2012… so one will be able to log in remotely… I don’t have a further details on that, but it’s on my To Ask list….. -:)
So there were no issues with the equipment or with the cloud but actually with huge demand and not enough seats. One hour wait sometimes it too long….
A quick quote from Maish’s blog:
Waiting in line for 45 minutes to get a lab seat is not good. Not for those who want to take the labs. That time spent in line is wasted – it could have been spent on the floor, or in a session. There has to be a better way of doing this. Perhaps pre-register for labs (like sessions), but also allow for walk-by’s as well. Those who have pre-registered will get quicker access. That way those who really want to do the labs, and close off time on their schedule and are there on time – do not have to spend an hour in line.
On the screenshot below, drill down through the PCoIP sessions on Xangati’s VDI dashboard.
The VMware Labs were running vSphere 5 and vCloud Director 1.5.
A quick quote from Chad Sakac’s blog concerning the underlying hardware:
This year, the whole shebang ran on vSphere 5, with vCD 1.5 (though not the GA release, but stuff further out). Much of the underlying infrastructure ran on a pair of EMC VNX 7500 arrays running GA code – each loaded for bear with SSD, FAST Cache, FAST VP, and loads of 10GbE. The bulk of the load ran on NFS, and each VNX was configured with 3 file blades (and one standby blade).
The tale of the tape:
- 131.115 Terabyes of NFS traffic
- 9.73728 billion NFS ops
- Avg IO size of 14kb
- on the VNXes, Internal average NFS read latency of 1.484ms
- on the VNXes Internal average NFS write latency 2.867ms
Screenshot from the video which is embedded at the end of this post:
The LabCloud software powering the labs is proprietary VMware software. Maybe I should put it also on my To Ask list..?
The most popular labs in Las Vegas :
HOL-01 – Building your hybrid cloud
HOL-10 – Advanced Troubleshooting and Performance
HOL-05 – Datacenter Migration and Disaster Recovery Protection
HOL-14 – vSphere Automation with PowerCLI
HOL-07 – Using Virtual Distributed Switch and Network IO Control
And another cool screenshot from the labs:
And a wrap up video from VMware Labs done by Xangati (Nathanael Iversen) :
Source: Xangati Blog and Virtual Geek’s blog and Maish’s blog
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