UCS and Nexus 1000V perform poorly at conference
Just a day after Cisco presented a glowing testimonial of its Unified Computing System and associated technologies at customer Tutor Perini, the platform suffered a high profile hiccup at this week’s VMworld conference. Colleague Julie Bort was there and reports that UCS and Cisco’s Nexus 1000V virtual switch powered the conference’s lab sessions — but also brought them to their knees.
According to Bort’s report:
Self-paced labs were all but completely offline until 2 p.m. on Monday, users reported, and a bootcamp session on Sunday, which demonstrated how to upgrade to VSphere, also had performance issues.
The Cisco technologies were the foundation of a virtual data center set up in 1,700 square feet of San Francisco’s Moscone Center. It deployed 16 UCS systems running 512 blades and 776 ESX servers. Each blade provisioned 40 virtual machines, Bort reports.
The virtual data center was expected to serve 4,000 online lab classes and 14,000 people over four days. Once the problems were fixed, 1,500 users were accessing the data center’s applications at any given time.
Despite the glitches, users say they were impressed by the system’s potential capacity and ability to reduce power and operational expense, and multivendor SAN support.
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