Join us Wednesday @ Noon PDT for the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #41, where our topic will be our new cost per application calculator, and the competitive landscape in general. Live streaming or dial-in information.
It was an open topic last Wednesday on the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #40. We talked about Cisco's announcement of their 'Unified Computing System', the significance of performance benchmarks, and more. You can listen, as always, via the widget to the right, the mp3, or iTunes.
Cisco Unified Computing System. We managed to talk about this without directly talking to anyone from Cisco, but do check out these blog posts:
- Cisco UCS Virtualization-Optimized CNAs (Scott Lowe)
- Interesting dialog on the Cisco UCS stuff (and a bit of detail) (Chad Sakac)
- Brave New Thinking From Cisco (Chuck Hollis)
- The UFC and UCS: Cisco Is Brock Lesnar (Chris Hoff)
- Bypassing the Hypervisor For Performance & Network “Simplicity” = Bypassing Security? (Chris Hoff)
- More technical details about Cisco Unified Computing System emerge (Alessandro Perilli)
- Cisco UCS Blades Designed For Virtualization (Rich Brambley)
Hyper-V Server R2: a few additional thoughts (Massimo Re Ferre') On what makes an "enterprise application," how the devil's in the details, and where Microsoft and VMware each create their respective value propositions.
Ken’s Virtual Reality (Ken Cline)
Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast (Edward Haletky)
Performance Benchmarks.
- Performance Week?! (Duncan Epping)
- A Big Step Backwards for Virtualization Benchmarking (VMware Virtual Reality Blog)
- One More Reason why SPECvirt is Needed Right Now (Chris Wolf)
- Lab Experiment: Hypervisors (Rick Vanover)
- SPEC Virtualization Committee
- I think this anonymous commenter has it about right — performance
testing isn't the most important criteria for choosing a virtualization
platform at this point: "After seeing the results from our internal testing, we decided to scrap
performance as a testing measure for VM platforms, and go for
Management, Support, and other metrics instead."
