VMware is really showing of they are eating their own dog food
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All the selfpaced labs this year at VMworld are automatically being provisioned on-demand by a custom build solution based on Lab Manager. Using the open API for labmanager they have build a Cloud like environment for all the attendees. The system does not just provision ‘normal’ virtual machines like windows, but entire virtualized ESX environments, so running ESX inside ESX, with SRM and VC server.
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10:32 pm on September 4th, 2009
This interview fails to mention that these self paced labs were a total failure for attendees on Monday. All those attempting to take the labs waited and waited for lab manager to get the lab environment setup in order to start doing the actual lab. Someone in a green shirt would come by every few minutes, scribble something on a post it note and take it to the front of the room. A few minutes later a different green shirted guy would come by and do the same. Most of those around me gave up after 30 or 40 mintues. I stuck it out for around 90 before I gave up.
Tuesday morning the staff manned the the hallways begging people to give the labs another try. The experience was better. The labs still took awhile to spin up but eventually worked. Staff stood around telling war stories about how hard they worked the day before trying to make everything work. Apologies were scarce.
If VMWare can’t make their lab manager work any better than this I can’t conceive of how any one else could.
1:22 am on November 23rd, 2009
Great video! Almost seems unreal to me. I ‘ve not had much experience with this type of technology. It would be amazing to try for myself!
2:49 pm on December 14th, 2009
Great Advice! One thing to remember when choosing where to get the best dog food is if it is approved by your vet or have a good reputation. If you have to eat it, would you buy it from the place your considering for your pet? Hmm…
5:56 am on February 19th, 2010
Haha – eating dog food seems insane! There are some strange people in the world though.