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Capacity Management for a Virtualized Infrastructure

Virtualization introduces a new capacity management paradigm in your datacenter. Anytime there is shared resources, you have to plan, coordinate and reserve capacity in advance in order to avoid contentions, inefficiencies or shortfalls.
In this session, we will provide some guidelines, recommendations and best practices to better manage and plan capacity with your VMware Infrastructure. We will discuss some classic concepts of traditional capacity management, and how they can be adapted for your virtualized environment

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Catherine Fan( VMware,Inc. ), Mahesh Ramachandran( VMware, Inc. ), Ed Wong( VMware, Inc. )

Catherine Fan is a Product Manager at VMware, where she specializes in enterprise datacenter management for virtualized environments. Catherine received her degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and is ITIL Foundation certified.

Mahesh Ramachandran is a Senior Product Manager at VMware, where he focuses on capacity planning and capacity management solutions for virtualized environments. Prior to joining VMware, Mahesh held Senior Product Management positions at Network General and Hewlett Packard. At Hewlett Packard, Mahesh was responsible for strategy, planning and marketing for virtualization software on HP servers. He has over 10 years of industry experience spanning virtualization, systems and network management, compilers and operating systems. Mahesh holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Business Administration degree from San Jose State University.

Ed Wong is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware, Inc. focusing on capacity planning and management for virtualized environments. Prior to his product marketing role at VMware, Ed worked in Product Management at VMware and WebEx, and Professional Services for Accenture and Baan. Ed received his degree in Finance and Marketing from Haas at UC Berkeley.