Creating 100 Virtual Machines of 10 GB Each In 13 Mins
Thursday, 03 January 2008 by Michel Roth
While VDI has a lot of advantages, one of the main drawbacks is the requirement for LOTS of storage. Enterprise storage. Expensive enterprise storage. Today I ran into this YouTube video of a demo held a VMworld 2007 by someone from NetApp.

In this demo, Vaughn Steward of NetApp, demonstrates some amazing looking technologies that show great potential in VDI environments. In the demo he shows, get this, creating 100 virtual machines of 10 GB each in under 13 minutes. A the best part: the storage used for all this? 10 GBs.
Note that the bulk of the time needed was to import the virtual machines into Virtual Center, not the creation of the files themselves. That only took two minutes or so. Very impressive stuff. Check it out:



Thanks to VMBlog.com for the pointer.

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