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You are here: Home / How Fast is the New vSphere 5 HA/DRS on 64 Node Cluster? FAST!

How Fast is the New vSphere 5 HA/DRS on 64 Node Cluster? FAST!

08.05.2011 by William Lam // 2 Comments

**** Disclaimer: 32 nodes is still the maximum supported configuration for vSphere 5 from VMware, this has not changed. This is purely a demonstration, use at your own risk ****

Recently while catching up on several episodes of the the weekly VMTN Community Podcast, an interesting comment was made by Tom Stephens (Sr. Technical Marketing for vSphere HA) in episode #150 regarding the size of a vSphere cluster. Tom mentioned that there was no "technical" reason a vSphere cluster could not scale beyond 32 nodes. I decided to find out for myself as this was something I had tried with vSphere 4.x and though the configuration of the cluster completed, only 32 hosts were property configured.

Here is a quick video on enabling the new HA (FDM) and DRS on a vSphere 5 cluster with 64 vESXi hosts, you should watch the entire video as it only took an astonishing 2minutes and 37seconds to complete! Hats off to the VMware HA/DRS engineering teams, you can really see the difference in the speed and performance of the new vSphere HA/DRS architecture in vSphere 5.

vSphere 5 - 64 Node Cluster from lamw on Vimeo.

BTW - If someone from VMware is watching this, what does CSI stand for? I believe this was the codename for what is now known as FDM

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Categories // Uncategorized Tags // cluster, drs, esxi5, fdm, ha, vSphere 5.0

Comments

  1. depping says

    08/05/2011 at 5:37 am

    Also, you are now testing HA and not really DRS. DRS's performance is all about the algorithm/drs thread on the vCenter server and the amount of calculations required. For HA there is no technical reason indeed, for DRS there is...

    CSI stands for "Cluster Services Infrastructure".

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  2. MarcS says

    08/10/2011 at 9:32 pm

    The "Fault Domain Manager" is a component (currently the only) of CSI.

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