{"id":2511,"date":"2015-12-15T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2015-12-15T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:07:47","slug":"3000-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"3000 Virtual Machines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work, we just went over 3000 VMs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vmware-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2342\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vmware-logo-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"vmware-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vmware-logo-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vmware-logo.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is with a relatively small team, thanks to some innovative automation of provisioning and management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it took us just 8 months to go from 2,000 to 3,000 VMs.\u00a0 Hopefully this rate of growth (sprawl?) will slow down a bit soon.\u00a0 We did actually go down a bit recently, as we cleaned up some no longer used machines.\u00a0 (Note that the green in the graph is from VMs on old ESXi 4.1.\u00a0 The remaining 4.1 VMs now are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VMware_Horizon_View\">desktops in View<\/a> (virtual desktop infrastructure.)\u00a0 We are just about to move these desktops into ESXi 5.5 Update 3 replacement cluster with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/euc\/2015\/09\/whats-new-with-vmware-horizon-6-2.html\">Horizon 6.2<\/a>, so the green will soon go away entirely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vmcount1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2514\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vmcount1-300x211.png\" alt=\"vmcount1\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vmcount1-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vmcount1.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vm-count-plaques.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2513\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vm-count-plaques-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"vm count plaques\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vm-count-plaques-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vm-count-plaques-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work, we just went over 3000 VMs.\u00a0 This is with a relatively small team, thanks to some innovative automation of provisioning and management. &nbsp; 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