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