Enabling VM Rightsizing in vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS)
One of the many great features of vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) is the ability to identify and address over or under sized virtual machines. I was asked a short while ago why the option to resize a VM was unavailable or ‘greyed out’ as you can see below. This feature is something that […]
PowerVCF v2.1.3 – General Availability
I’m pleased to announce the general availability of PowerVCF v2.1.3 for download from the PowerShell Library. PowerVCF is a open source project and the team works on adding support when time permits. This latest release adds new functionality to support the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.
Virtual Networking Made Easy with VMware VMXNET3 Driver
VMware VMXNET3 is a para-virtual(Hypervisor aware) network driver, optimized to provide high performance, high throughput, and minimal latency. Over the last two decades, virtualization has revolutionized how computing resources are consumed. While it has made utilization of computing hardware […]
Introducing VMware’s First Industry-Recognized Tanzu Technical Certification
The VCP-Application Modernization 2021 (VCP-AM) validates your expertise with Tanzu platform solutions including vSphere with Tanzu, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Tanzu Mission Control. Download the Tanzu Partner Resources deck to learn how the new VCP-AM counts toward achieving the Modern […]
Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in general availability
Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers.
vSAN Data Persistence Platform – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series on vSAN DPp. This video demonstrates maintenance and lifecycle operations for s3 object storage. Part 1 https://youtu.be/nDLsic7tvKI
vSAN Data Persistence Platform – Part 1
vSAN DPp provides a framework for modern stateful service partners to interoperate with the underlying VMware infrastructure so that their software can run on VMware Cloud Foundation™ with VMware Tanzu™ optimally. The result is that you can run modern stateful services with lower TCO and simplified operations and management.
VMware ESX 7.0 Update 2c released
VMware has released ESXi 7.0 Update 2c (7.0.2c), this is a bug fixing version. This patch should fix the problem with boot from USB or SD-Card, where it after some time loses access to the boot device, and locks the host management, with a workaround could you in some cases vMotion the […]
vSphere with Tanzu Supports 6.3 Times More Container Pods than Bare Metal
A third-party study shows that vSphere with Tanzu can support 6.3 times more container pods per physical host than Red Hat OpenShift on bare metal. What was tested Principled Technologies (PT), an independent lab facility, tested VMware vSphere 7 U2 with Tanzu and bare metal Red Hat OpenShift […]
Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3
The VMware Cloud Foundation team is proud to announce general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3, bringing forward the latest innovations in full stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Hybrid Cloud Platform. The VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 release includes the following: Enhanced […]
VMware {code} Hackathon @ VMworld 2021
It’s that time of year again! Right around the corner from our annual Hackathon! Don’t know what I’m talking about? You can read more about the history behind the VMworld VMware {code} Hackathon here Like last year, we’ll be hosting the Hackathon virtually this year, and while we are disappoint [..]
How VMware Tanzu SaaS Products Handle Data Privacy and Security
Companies today are adopting software as a service (SaaS) at a rapid pace. There are many factors contributing to this trend, including: Operational efficiency – There are significant time and cost benefits to using vendor-managed, cloud-hosted software versus installing and maintaining […]
Today NVIDIA has launched its brand new enterprise solution: NVIDIA Enterprise AI
NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite is an end-to-end cloud-native suite of AI tools and frameworks, optimized and exclusively certified by NVIDIA to run on VMware vSphere. This includes frameworks that are broadly applicable and used across vertical industries such as manufacturing, logistics, financial services, retail, and healthcare. For example, it includes:
This unique combination of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite with VMware vSphere is the next step in delivering a powerful AI-Ready Enterprise Platform.
Scale without compromise: With NVIDIA Virtual GPUs (vGPUs) enabling both time-sliced sharing as well as new multi-instance GPU (MIG) hardware-level spatial partitioning, customers have multiple options in how they can share valuable GPU resources across more data scientists and increase GPU utilization as they scale AI workloads in the enterprise.
vSphere DRS automatically places workloads across AI infrastructure at scale for optimal consumption, and vSphere vMotion provides live migration to simplify infrastructure maintenance such as consolidation, expansion, or upgrades.
NVIDIA datacenter and edge portfolio, a GPU for every possible workload.
Nvidia Networking portfolio for Enterprise AI
Multi Instance GPU (MIG) is especially useful for AI Inference. Fully isolated and secure instances at the hardware level with dedicated high-bandwidth memory, cache, and compute cores.
AI workloads come in all sizes with a wide variety of data requirements. Some process images, like live traffic reporting systems or online shopping recommender systems. Others are text-based, like a customer service support system powered by conversational AI. Everything is possible with this very cool new solution from NVIDIA and VMware. I really love it
Nvidia partnership with VMware enables AI across enterprise for every workload
Nvidia’s year-long collaboration with VMware is finally bearing fruit with today’s general launch of the new Nvidia AI Enterprise platform, a suite of artificial intelligence tools and frameworks that make it possible to virtualize AI workloads and run them on Nvidia-certified server [..]
Design Studio Sessions at VMworld 2021 – We want your feedback!
Join the VMware Design team at VMworld. We are looking forward to great discussions with you and learn how we can make our products better, faster, stronger. Start building your customized VMworld Design Studio agenda!
Establishing an SRE-Based Incident Lifecycle Program
Outages, employee burnout, and customer dissatisfaction take more than a quick patch. They also require sophisticated SLO-based alerting and observability. This ebook gives you a step-by-step guide to creating an incident lifecycle program that suits your organization’s unique needs.
VMware App Volumes – AD Domain – LDAPS Configuration/Certificate Renewal
The Enterprise Root CA certificate was coming close to expiry, and we had to replace the certificate on VMware App Volumes Manager. In this blog post, we will take a look into the following topics: How to identify the Microsoft Enterprise Root CAHow to generate the Root Certificate *.cerConvert [..]
There is a new Fling in town – check out NUMA Observer
The NUMA Observer Fling scans your virtual machine inventory and identifies VMs with overlapping core/NUMA affinities and generates alerts. Flings are experimental and should not be run on production systems.
Using ESXi ISO image builder with VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2
Creating custom ESXi images is useful when you need to add custom drivers to your installation ESXi ISO. Previously, there were third-party tools that are no longer maintained. However, since vSphere 6.x, VMware has offered its own utility, which is built into vSphere, called ESXi Image Builder.
Onboarding experience of VMware ON AWS in Production Environment – Part 2
VMware on AWS Deployment – Requirements.
