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Interesting VMware Statistics

After attending the VMWorld 2011 conference, listening to the great keynote by Paul Maritz, and along with doing a lot of reading (working on vSphere 5 upgrades for clients), I have come across a number of very interesting statistics.

VMWARE

  • 1 new VM every 6 second
    (Faster than rate of babies born in US)
  • More thank 20 million VMs around the world
    (If they were physicaly machines, would stretch 2x length of the Great Wall of China)
  • There are 5.5 vMotions per second
    (More than number of planes taking off globally)
  • More than 800,000 vSphere admins
  • More than 68,000 VCPs in 160+ countries
  • 48 vCloud service providers

 

VSPHERE5

  • More than 1 million engineering hours
  • More than 2 million QA hours
  • 200 new features
  • More than 2,000 partner certifications

 

VMWORLD 2011

19,000 attendees (Hurricane Irene caused many flight cancellations, would have been higher)

Hands-On Lab Stats

  • 248 servers
  • 2,496 cores
  • 18,048 GB total memory
  • 6,392 GHz total processingv
  • Powered by vSphere5 and vCloud Director 1.5
  • 480 seats, all dual monitor
  • 24,000 lab seat hours
  • 18,000 labs deployed
  • 225,000 VMs deployed