Comments on: Real Thin Provisioning And Over Allocation – The VI Admin http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/ Go Green with Virtualization. Go UGLY Green with vmetc.com. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:56:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-4156 Chris Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:03:05 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-4156 It was 3 part time virtualization admin for 600-700 QA/Dev VMs and ~150 production VMs across two locations, 4 clusters, and 23 servers.<br><br> After filling a datacenter 3 years earlier than projected the company is going whole hog on virtualization. There are 4 dedicated Virtualization engineers for high level stuff while the existing windows and unix sysadmins will be doing most of the day to day work on systems, like cloning from templates. Anything the sysadmins did on a physical they'll do on a virtual. The plan is to P2V around 2000 existing servers this year and anything new is likely to be a virtual. We'll be busy, but up front we're spending a lot of time deciding which tools to use to manage the environment. Once that's done we should be less busy. It was 3 part time virtualization admin for 600-700 QA/Dev VMs and ~150 production VMs across two locations, 4 clusters, and 23 servers.

After filling a datacenter 3 years earlier than projected the company is going whole hog on virtualization. There are 4 dedicated Virtualization engineers for high level stuff while the existing windows and unix sysadmins will be doing most of the day to day work on systems, like cloning from templates. Anything the sysadmins did on a physical they'll do on a virtual. The plan is to P2V around 2000 existing servers this year and anything new is likely to be a virtual. We'll be busy, but up front we're spending a lot of time deciding which tools to use to manage the environment. Once that's done we should be less busy.

]]> By: rbrambley http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-4158 rbrambley Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:14:29 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-4158 Thanks Hugo!<br><br>I need to recalculate the avg vm to aim ratio .....<br><br>Sent from my iPod<br><br>Rich Brambley<br><a href="http://vmetc.com" rel="nofollow">http://vmetc.com</a><br><a href="http://www.gestaltit.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gestaltit.com</a> Thanks Hugo!

I need to recalculate the avg vm to aim ratio …..

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]]> By: Hugo Peeters http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-4157 Hugo Peeters Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:11:15 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-4157 Cool shirt!<br>About 30 hosts and 400 vms with 3 admins. Doing everything from design to building vms. PowerCLI to the rescue! Cool shirt!
About 30 hosts and 400 vms with 3 admins. Doing everything from design to building vms. PowerCLI to the rescue!

]]> By: rbrambley http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-4159 rbrambley Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:09:43 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-4159 Thanks for all the comments so far. I need to sit down with the calculator and come up with the average ratio again! Thanks for all the comments so far. I need to sit down with the calculator and come up with the average ratio again!

]]> By: william bishop http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-3815 william bishop Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:25:39 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-3815 rbrambley, VMsprawl is a huge problem with us...people come to us more frequently, because we no longer have a 2 week lead time (or longer), but rather minutes. The 2 of us that do the VI work spend probably 20% of our week on vmware admin duties alone...the rest of it is our other work (I am the storage admin, vmware admin, server admin, and the team lead (project planning and paperwork mostly). It's not as time consuming as I feared, but we've been overloaded from the beginning. It's far better than physical servers in any case, I replaced my virtual center yesterday, and it was an all day affair, because it was hardware. If it had been virtual it would have been at most a couple hours.<br><br>Sprawl is a huge problem and no one seems to be inclined to rein it in at all. rbrambley, VMsprawl is a huge problem with us…people come to us more frequently, because we no longer have a 2 week lead time (or longer), but rather minutes. The 2 of us that do the VI work spend probably 20% of our week on vmware admin duties alone…the rest of it is our other work (I am the storage admin, vmware admin, server admin, and the team lead (project planning and paperwork mostly). It's not as time consuming as I feared, but we've been overloaded from the beginning. It's far better than physical servers in any case, I replaced my virtual center yesterday, and it was an all day affair, because it was hardware. If it had been virtual it would have been at most a couple hours.

Sprawl is a huge problem and no one seems to be inclined to rein it in at all.

]]> By: william bishop http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-3479 william bishop Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:25:39 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-3479 rbrambley, VMsprawl is a huge problem with us...people come to us more frequently, because we no longer have a 2 week lead time (or longer), but rather minutes. The 2 of us that do the VI work spend probably 20% of our week on vmware admin duties alone...the rest of it is our other work (I am the storage admin, vmware admin, server admin, and the team lead (project planning and paperwork mostly). It's not as time consuming as I feared, but we've been overloaded from the beginning. It's far better than physical servers in any case, I replaced my virtual center yesterday, and it was an all day affair, because it was hardware. If it had been virtual it would have been at most a couple hours.<br><br>Sprawl is a huge problem and no one seems to be inclined to rein it in at all. rbrambley, VMsprawl is a huge problem with us…people come to us more frequently, because we no longer have a 2 week lead time (or longer), but rather minutes. The 2 of us that do the VI work spend probably 20% of our week on vmware admin duties alone…the rest of it is our other work (I am the storage admin, vmware admin, server admin, and the team lead (project planning and paperwork mostly). It's not as time consuming as I feared, but we've been overloaded from the beginning. It's far better than physical servers in any case, I replaced my virtual center yesterday, and it was an all day affair, because it was hardware. If it had been virtual it would have been at most a couple hours.

Sprawl is a huge problem and no one seems to be inclined to rein it in at all.

]]> By: rbrambley http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-3452 rbrambley Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:43:57 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-3452 Sometimes the best laughs come from reality! Thanks for the numbers. Sometimes the best laughs come from reality! Thanks for the numbers.

]]> By: mhurley http://vmetc.com/2009/11/04/real-thin-provisioning-and-over-allocation-the-vi-admin/comment-page-2/#comment-3450 mhurley Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:36:15 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=4987#comment-3450 1 admin<br>88 Hosts<br>580 VMs 1 admin
88 Hosts
580 VMs

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