The Hands-on-Labs (HoL) at VMworld are always a big hit. A ton of work goes into putting them on and supporting them and everyone seems to love them. This was a big year for vSAN in the HoL. At VMworld Las Vegas, 11,444 labs were completed and the vSAN lab, HOL-1808-01-HCI – vSAN 6.6, was the #2 overall lab completed. Our NSX friends held the #1 spot.
The HoL’s were delivered from 5 different data centers. Each handled approximately 20% of the workloads. vSAN was the storage in 4 of the data centers. 2 of the 4 were VMware data centers running vSphere, NSX, and vSAN for software defined compute, network and storage. Another was IBM BlueMix (SoftLayer) built with VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and SDDC Manager). And the other was VMware Cloud on ASW also built with VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and SDDC Manager). The 5th data center was another VMware data center running traditional storage. This is a great Hybrid Cloud / Multi Cloud example leveraging 3 of our own datacenters and 2 of the largest public cloud data centers offering Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas).
9,640 of the HoL’s were deployed across the 4 vSAN data centers. This represents 84% of the labs delivered at VMworld US were delivered by vSAN. To support the HoL’s, over 90,000 VM’s were provisioned in just 5 days. Actually, more than that since extra HoL’s are pre-provision that don’t all get used. This is a huge win for HCI and vSAN as it performed like a champ for this heavy workload.
These stats are too impressive not to share and they are a great testament to all the people that make it happen.
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