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One of the big takeaways from the EqualLogic sessions this morning was just how many of us are using VMware.  During the tools session, the question was asked, “How many of you are using hyper-v?” Of probably 40 people in the room, not a single person.  No one. Nada. Zilch. 

However, almost everyone in the room was using VMware.  Why does this matter?  Well, for one thing, we all have gotten different answers over time from vendors about what is best for our virtualized environment.  We are all learning the hard way the best practices for deploying iSCSI initiators (VMware says to use their initiator instead of Microsofts, etc), how to do MPIO (right now using the Vsphere MPIO option for round robin seems to be the only solution), etc. 

What is clear is that this is a moving target.  The rules are changing constantly and new tools are coming from VMware and from EqualLogic that we will need to think through.  With anything there will be tradeoffs.  What I would love to see happen is a combined effort from VMware and EqualLogic to prepare a consistent message about best practices.  Certainly documents exist today about best practices, but if they are more than two months old, are they the best resource today?

Hoping that the sessions dedicated to VMware this afternoon will answer some of these questions.  And I’d hate to be running a session in the same timeslot as the VMware ones, because I gotta feeling that the VMware sessions will be standing room only.