VMWorld 2009 recap: Cisco UCS, WAAS.. and more

With over 12,000 attendees, VMWorld 2009 was definitely impressive. It was great to be there as part of the Cisco data center team and see Cisco continue to make progress into the server & virtualization space. A few exciting technology showcases & announcements that were exciting to me:

VMWorld Data Center chose Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to virtualize and reduced an environment of 37,728 physical servers using 2,483 racks and 25,329 KW of power to 776 physical servers in 28 racks using 528 KW of power.

The Cisco UCS infrastructure supported all the instructor-led labs with an aggregate of 4096 Intel Nehalem Cores and 24 TB of memory using:

16 racks
64 chassis
512 blades
32 6120 XP Fabric interconnects (2 per rack)

Here’s a cool time-lapsed video on the entire build out of the Data Center at VMworld:

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