Webcast: How VMware uses Hardware Virtualization Internally
VMware recently released a case study about how they use hardware virtualization in their internal environment. This case study was later released as a webcast. There is some interesting information gathered from the study including:
- Server consolidation ratios:
- 10 to 1 for servers
- 64 to 1 for VDI desktops/li>
- 97% of VMware’s servers are virtualized
- 550 users are using VDI with a Wyse thin client and 24″ monitor
- VMware’s internal mail server infrastructure is virtualized and houses 7800 mailboxes
- The mail infrastructure is made up of 29 virtual machines running Microsoft Exchange
It will be interesting to see how the release of vShpere 4 impacts these numbers.
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