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Virtualization Link Roundup 20090612

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Round Up IILatest herd of virtualization links from the past two weeks:

VMware Specific Links

General Virtualization Links

Virtualization Link Roundup 20090529

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photo by alandberning
photo by alandberning

Seems like on a week over week basis, there is a flood of virtualization information that comes across my desktop/inbox/feeds.  Like anything, bits and pieces are valuable to different clients of mine or myself.  While I’ve historically not been a fan of link lists because all too often there is no value add in them, I’ve decide to try and provide a regular link roundup based on the various virtualization bits that I have found most useful.  This won’t be an all emcompasing list, more a filter list based on what I’m working on currently with clients and what are key industry items. Expect this list to come out every week or two, depending on my schedule.

(and no complaining about the percentage of VMware related bits, you all should have seen my disclosures by now.  🙂  )

VMware Links

Other Virtualization Links

A New Data Center Measurement Metric

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Dilbert.com

One of my clients made an interesting comment this week about a new way they are thinking of measuring their data centers.  Anyone dealing with virtualization knows that measuring a data center on square feet or number of physical servers alone is rather meaningless.  We mostly talk about ratios:  VMs per Socket (CPU) or VMs per Core.  But as green initiatives push on I had one client mention the new metric of VMs per Kilowatt hour.

This is interesting because it not only takes into consideration the efficiency of your virtualization solution, but also the power efficiency of your servers, storage, and network.  What is the efficiency at which one can run a data center?  When you get into a cloud computing environment where users pay for what they use, don’t the providers also want to only be paying for what is required?  If companies are now placing notes in their annual reports on their corporate carbon foot print, shouldn’t they also be thinking about defining, measuring and tracking their data center carbon foot print?

This takes one down an interesting thought process that I think I’ve only scratched the surface of.

(Thanks goes out ot Mike P. for pointing me to the above Dilbert strip!)