RealTime Applications Running on vSphere

RealTime Applications Running on vSphere
Running realtime applications on any virtualization platform is a difficult use case, as the goals of sharing resources across a large number of virtual machines directly conflicts with the goal of providing realtime access to dedicated resources.
However, vSphere has specific improvements that have made some of these challenging workloads accessible, and there is now significant market interest in how best to virtualize such applications. In this talk we address that general topic. More specifically, we discuss extensive engineering work done with VMware’s partners in the Telephony space, where Voice-Over-IP (VOIP) applications have been successfully virtualized and offered to the market. We discuss the specific vSphere improvements that play a role here, and then provide quantitative results to highlight the call quality observed and how it differs from observations on a physical platform. We then discuss another key realtime arena, namely latency sensitive financial applications running on the desktop.
We discuss how the new PC over IP protocol (PCOIP) allows vSphere and VMware View to support this challenging use case, and outline the differences observed with different types of desktop clients. Thoughout we identify best practices that will be useful for both realtime and any other latency sensitive applications, and we focus on how best to exploit vSphere functionality in our customers product datacenters.
Speaker(s):
Tim Harris, Director of Validation Services, VMware, Inc.
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