Eric Sloof

VMware Continuent enables demanding enterprise customers to process billions of business-critical transactions using economical MySQL relational databases. Learn how VMware Continuent adds high-availability, disaster recovery, and real-time data warehouse loading to off-the-shelf MySQL operating in vCloud Air.

You will get an introduction to vCloud Air basics, then do a deep dive into the VMware Continuent system architecture covering important issues like failover, zero-downtime maintenance, and load scaling. We will conclude with a demonstration of using VMware Continuent to implement disaster recovery between a typical on-prem environment and vCloud Air.

Join Jeff Goodall for a look at VMware's community inside a company at VMware headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

VMware's Palo Alto Headquarters was designed for collaboration and connection. Sitting on 105 acres in Stanford Research Park with more than 1500 trees, beautiful landscape, and green facilities, +VMware's “campus-in-a-forest” is a refuge for nature lovers and a source of rejuvenation for all. 

Project Enzo is VMware’s new hybrid cloud-scale architecture designed to combine the economic benefits of cloud-based VMware virtual desktops and application technology, with the simplicity of hyper-converged infrastructure to transform the IT experience.

The webcast "Project Enzo: Redefining Workspace Delivery with the Cloud" is available for your viewing on demand. You can access the webcast here.
 

If you could start with a clean slate, and fundamentally change the way you deliver desktops and apps to your users, what would it look like? What if desktop transformation was as easy as plug-in, power-up, and log-in, all in under 60 minutes?

What if scaling to thousands of desktops was faster than going to your local coffee shop? What if your users’ workspaces were liberated from hardware, and free to move across private, public and hybrid clouds based on demand, at the push of a button?

And what if you could manage it all from one console in the cloud? We’ve got some really big things happening - view this special session to learn more about what’s next with VMware End-User Computing and Project Enzo.

I’ve created a YouTube playlist with 32 newly released VMworld 2014 sessions.

VMware vSphere 6 continues to enhance the performance features and capabilities of the vSphere platform, making it the most robust and highest-performing cloud platform.

vSphere 6 supports larger virtual machines and physical hosts to accommodate even the most demanding workloads. It also introduces several new features that reduce latency and increase throughput for network, storage, and compute.

This paper first looks at the improvements made to VMware vCenter Server, then to the core platform, storage and network. vSphere 6.0 contains many performance improvements across the areas of management, compute, core platform, and network.

Some of these improvements include:

• vSphere Web Client performance and usability.
• vCenter Server management of very large deployments and operational throughput improved for small, medium, and large inventories.
• Scaling up (more virtual CPU) and out (more VMs per host) higher than ever before.
• Infrastructure improvements like the way nodes are arranged in vNUMA when memory is hot-added
• Graphics improvements leveraged by Horizon.
• Storage stack optimizations, which allow greater IOPS per second. Virtual Volumes are new, adding flexibility and elasticity to storage, and Virtual SAN performance is improved.
• Networking enhancements like Network I/O Control with reservations, dense mode for clusters like Webfarms, VMXNET3 support for LRO, and line rate for a vNIC with a 40GbE physical NIC.