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Razvan Stoica

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Sumar:

Advantages

Problems appeared

Q&A

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Advantages

Networking:

• Netflow support on vDS• Better vmotion over high latency networks (20ms)• Port mirroring on vDS• 75% bandwidth reduction for VDI’s

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Storage:

• 1MB blocksize• New file locking system (ATS as a part of VAAI)• VMFS5• Fast, live storage vmotion with I/O mirroring

Advantages

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Computing:

• Improved performance for SMT CPU (Symmetric multithreading)• vNUMA – for NUMA aware guest operating system

Advantages

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Management:

• Web Client• Multiple communication paths between nodes (+Storage)• More management operations/minute

Advantages

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• ESX(i)4 hosts can’t be added to a vDS version 5• Some new bought HS22 Blades had AES enabled **• On heavy load on vCenter machine the hosts get disconnected• Veeam upgrade and recreate backup jobs

Problems appeared

** http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5086963

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Questions?

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Thank you!

Razvan Stoica – razvan.stoica@netbridge.ro