NUMA | vNUMA | Should we consider “Cores per socket” VM configuration in vSphere…
This blog is a consolidation (one reference point) to understand NUMA, vNUMA, “why it is important in the world of hypervisors?”, changes in vNUMA from vSphere v6.5 onwards, advance configuration overrides, rule of thumb, recommendations on “Cores per Socket” VM configuration for vSphere v6.7 and v7
HomeLab Stage XXXV: vSAN Expanding
After finishing the last Stage XXXIV: Site Recovery Manager, now it is time to write a little bit more details about my vSAN clusters…. I started using VMware vSAN very early, with the 5.5U1 release at customer sites and at… Read More Stage XXXV: vSAN Expanding.
A trip down memory lane with the vSphere C# Client and ESXi 6.7 & 7.0
Last week I had shared an interesting tweet. Those with a keen eye quickly realized there was more to my tweet than meets the eye 😉 but the majority of folks quickly admitted they were fooled by the nice “April Fools” joke … but was it really a joke? …Well, it yes and no.
New Release – PowerCLI 12
This week has been full of announcements, releases, and so much other excitement. We can’t help but join in with a release of our own in the form of PowerCLI 12.0.0! This new release comes complete with a massive amount of new functionality, support for newly released products, and some performance improvements too. PowerCLI 12.0.0 The post New Release – PowerCLI 12 appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.
Useful Interactive Terminal and Graphical UI Tools for Kubernetes
I recently ran an internal hands-on workshop where I demonstrated to our field, marketing, support and engineering on just how easy it is to deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Clusters running on VMware Cloud on AWS. While developing the lab which has been several weeks in the making, I did not want to […]
vSphere 7 – Launch Recap & Links, Week 4
Four weeks of vSphere 7 launch… it’s been quite the adventure. Here’s what’s transpired in the last week! Watch the vSphere 7 Launch Event This was a really great online event! The folks at theCUBE did a wonderful job, and the folks from VMware were informative, interesting, and funny. If you …Read More
VMware Cloud on AWS Stretched Clusters SLA Update
We recently updated the SLA requirements for Stretched Clusters in VMware Cloud on AWS as part of our more substantial optimizations that began with the previously announced price reduction. After monitoring the deployed fleet, observed failure rates and our time to recovery …Read More
VMware IT’s Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSAN
Our Tanzu Kubernetes Grid solution provides us with faster and more efficient deployments, highly scalable resource-efficient environments, and helps us run resilient enterprise operations, including business-critical applications like our ticketing system…. Read on!
Upgrade to VMware vCenter 7, vSphere 7, and vSAN 7
VMware just released vCenter 7, vSphere 7, and vSAN 7 to the public, introducing long-awaited features such as Kubernetes integration, Improved DRS, Lifecycle Manager, intrinsic security, and hybrid cloud services. In this post I am going to walk…
Upgrade ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 via Lifecycle Manager – Formally Update Manager
With ESXi 7.0 being announced, I have run through the upgrade procedure in my lab and documented it here for anyone interested. There are a few ways you can upgrade ESXi. The much-preferred way being through Update Manager and the second via ESXi CLI…. Read on!
What’s Removed From VMware vSphere 7?
VMware vSphere 7 introduces lot of new features but there are some features which removed or deprecated in VMware vSphere 7. Some of them were important features for us but VMware has defined some policies to achieved new and updated solutions in server/desktop/OS Level virtualization.
Supporting a Rich User Experience for Remote Employees with VMware and NVIDIA
Ensuring great end-user experience is critical to productivity, especially these days as organizations are working to enable more employees to work from home or work remotely. To help with an increasingly remote workforce, many organizations are turning to virtual app and desktop (VDI) technologies like VMware Horizon 7 and Horizon Cloud in order to minimize […] The post Supporting a Rich User Experience for Remote Employees with VMware and NVIDIA appeared first on VMware End-User Computing…Read More
Upgrading ESXi to 7.0 with ESXCLI
This post runs through the basics for upgrading ESXi 6.5 or 6.7 to ESXi 7.0. Prerequisite steps There are some important considerations to take into account prior to upgrading ESXi,
A first look at vSphere with Kubernetes in action
In my previous post on VCF 4.0, we looked at the steps involved in deploying vSphere with Kubernetes in a Workload Domain (WLD). When we completed that step, we had rolled out the Supervisor Control Plane VMs, and installed the Spherelet components which allows our ESXi hosts to behave as K8s.
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with Bitfusion on Kubernetes
Distributed machine learning across multiple nodes can be effectively used for training. In this demo we show the use of vSphere Bitfusion to scale out workloads across multiple Kubernetes nodes with minimum loss in performance. The results showed the effectiveness of sharing GPU across jobs with minimal loss of performance. VMware Bitfusion makes distributed training scalable across physical resources and makes it limitless from a GPU resources capability.
vSphere Supervisor Namespace
vSphere 7 with Kubernetes enables the vSphere cluster to run and manage containers as native constructs (vSphere Pods). The previous two articles in this series cover the initial placement of a vSphere pod and compute resource management of individual vSphere pods. This article covers the compute resource management aspect of the vSphere Supervisor namespace construct. […] The post vSphere Supervisor Namespace appeared first on frankdenneman.nl.
vSphere 7 – Content Library
Content Library has come a long way since its inception in vSphere 6.0. Having such a library allows for virtual machine templates, as well as scripts, text files, and ISO images to be stored efficiently and centralized for sharing within the datacenter. Content Library in vSphere 7 does not disappoint by adding additional features to The post vSphere 7 – Content Library appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.
VMware Cloud on AWS – Purchase online and get started today
Whether you need to quickly scale resources to enable major growth initiatives or move disaster … The post VMware Cloud on AWS – Purchase online and get started today appeared first on VMware Cloud Community.
Is Your WAN Prepared for the COVID-19 Pandemic? It will be with SD-WAN
The current global health crisis has changed how people live, work, and interact. The COVID-19 pandemic has now forced nearly every country worldwide to invoke some version of “shelter in place.” Many organizations have either recommended or mandated employees work from home. The work from home users must be able to access their corporate applications with the same high-quality experience The post Is Your WAN Prepared for the COVID-19 Pandemic? It will be with SD-WAN appeared first on…Read More
VMware Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) Self-education Material Available
The VMware Advanced Load Balancer delivers the industry’s only software-defined networking stack built for the modern multi-cloud era. It further enables VMware to bring the public cloud experience to the entire data center – automated, software-defined, highly scalable, distributed architecture – that is intrinsically more secure. Additional content including webinars and workshops can be accessed […] The post VMware Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) Self-education Material Available…Read More
