@dwellington Cloud Management Platform. The software that sits on top of, for example, a virtual infrastructure and turns it into a IaaS

@dwellington Good stuff on paper, but it’s the actual implementation that matters. Integration between different CMP modules for example

Thinking aloud: what’s the operational scale for management GUIs to become inefficient and oblige customers to look for APIs and automation?

RT @rspruijt: It seems that #Hyper-V Client Side Hypervisor in #Windows8 is just for IT Pro – test/dev; No High-end Graphics, Audio/USB …

“Number of vCD cell instances = n+1 where n is the number of vCenter server instance” where a fully loaded vCenter has more than 2K VMs

“For VMs w/ I/O-intensive workloads consider using full clones…I/O loads w/ 1500+ IOPS will see a decrease in throughput w/ linked clones”

“A database server configured with 16GB of memory, 100GB storage, and 4 CPUs should be adequate for most vCloud Director clusters.”

VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices: http://t.co/xbSEI8vP

@benkepes Do you want to talk BMC CLM, CA ASC, HP CSA or IBM SDM? 🙂 /cc: @samj @reillyusa

Interesting product comparison between MSFT System Center 2012 cloud and a VMware vCloud conf: http://t.co/QV2sU4N5 RT @reillyusa @mfdii