Private AI: One Year Later with Chris Wolf
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom to discuss Private AI and what has changed since the announcement last year.
First Look at VMware Cloud Foundation 9
The big news from last week at VMware Explore Las Vegas was the announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9! For those that attended the VCF Division Keynote 3 Transformations for the Smarter Way to Cloud, you got to hear more about VCF 9 directly from both Krish Prasad (General Manager […]
Building Production-grade AI-driven Apps on VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA NIMs
As part of the VMware Explore 2024 announcements regarding VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N), we decided to refresh the Improved RAG Starter Pack v2.0 to help our customers take advantage of the newest NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs), which offer production-grade attributes (robust, scalable, and secure) for the language models utilized in Retrieval Augmented … Continued The post Building Production-grade AI-driven Apps on VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA NIMs…Read More
Advancing Healthcare with AI & ML using VMware Data Solutions
Join our incisive webinar tailored for healthcare IT executives. Learn how to capitalize on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies, harnessing data to drive your organization’s mission forward. No matter your sector, from hospitals to insurance or drug discovery, there are exciting opportunities to use Data, AI, and ML to elevate your goals. The webinar is targeted towards forward-thinking professionals ready to leverage these technologies in healthcare.
Generative AI 101- The realities of generative AI and what you need to know
Unleash Superior Performance with VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture and Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processors
More IT organizations are moving to a software-defined approach to infrastructure to build a scalable, modern, resilient and secure data center, and storage is no exception. The pace of change in the data center coupled with the rapid increase in data growth is making the traditional approach of purchasing storage for a particular workload type … Continued The post Unleash Superior Performance with VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture and Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Processors…Read More
Avoiding the Same Mistakes: Crafting a Successful AI Strategy with VMware Cloud Service Providers
As enterprises transition from ideation to implementation in their artificial intelligence (AI) journeys, the urgency to deploy effective AI solutions has never been greater. Gen AI in many ways has brought AI to life and yesterday’s impossible seems to be becoming today’s indispensable. The pace of innovation in every layer of the stack continues to … Continued The post Avoiding the Same Mistakes: Crafting a Successful AI Strategy with VMware Cloud Service Providers appeared first on VMware…Read More
I am really impressed with the new Tech Preview in vSphere 8.0.3….
My HoloDeck host has 1.5TB of DRAM, now a 4TB NVMe (Intel DC P4600) = 4.5 TB usable memory….
I am using only the 200 % option, but it works pretty well.
The HoloDeck environment can now be used with much more hosts…..
More on that topic at my next blog post….. including new Dell servers inside my HomeLab / HomeDC
My VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas Session Slides are available now: – VCDX #181 M…
VMware Explore 2024 US is over and I am back home. A lot of new ideas, some new hardware enhancements are already ordered 🙂 Here are the slides from my official talks […]
VMware Explore 2024 US is over and I am back home. A lot of new ideas, some new hardware enhancements are already ordered 🙂
Here are the slides from my official talks:
It was so much fun, presenting again at VMware Explore / VMworld. The Virtually Speaking Podcast was also great and of course the Panel Discussion with William Lam and Michael Roy was amazing.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – Next Level SDDC
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 has been officially announced during the VMware Explore 2024 keynote! But what are some of the core differences for this new version? In my opinion, this move is highly appealing to enterprises looking for a flexible, efficient, and scalable cloud solution. […]
Recap of #VMwareExplore Major Announcements
Chris Wolf, Global Head of Private AI, VCF Division at Broadcom, gives a high-level recap of the major announcements shared during the VMware Explore General Session. See more announcement details in our media kit: https://brcm.tech/3YVsdgt
Cornerstone for Modern IT professionals: VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator 2024
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VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas | Day 4 Recap
VMware Explore Las Vegas The Venetian Convention and Expo CenterAugust 29, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas was a resounding success, and we owe it all to our amazing customers, partners, and peers who made it happen. Day four brought even more insightful sessions, hands-on labs, and expert speakers who demonstrated our latest product releases … Continued The post VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas | Day 4 Recap appeared first on VMware Explore Blog.
Save the Date for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025
Mark your calendars. VMware Explore will return to Las Vegas in 2025. VMware Explore Las Vegas, Nevada | The Venetian August 25 – 28, 2024 Save the dates for an exclusive opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology, gain valuable insights, and network with industry experts. Don’t miss out on next year’s must-attend event! Join the … Continued The post Save the Date for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025 appeared first on VMware Explore Blog.
Boost throughput with scaling VMs while keeping the GPUs to a minimum
This article describes some performance tests we conducted to explore the advantages of virtualizing NVIDIA GPUs with VMware vSphere for generative AI workloads. We tested LLAMA2-7b and LLAMA2-13b parameter models using various virtual GPU (vGPU) and multi-instance GPU (MIG) configurations on […]
Easier Certificate Management with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations
Certificate management is crucial for security against “man in the middle” cyber attacks. When a certificate expires, servers and applications can become unresponsive, which may take time to bring them back online. Managing various certificates (vSphere, Aria, VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), […]
Broadcom’s Five Biggest Announcements At VMware Explore
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was a guest at VMware Explore in Las Vegas last year, but one year and $69 billion dollars later, it is his party as the newly acquired VMware By Broadcom showed off new cloud foundations, Tanzu, and AI products designed to simplify cloud deployments and deliver private, […]
Extreme Performance Series 2024: Scheduler Optimizations for High Core Count CPUs
Todd Muirhead talks with Yifan Hao about optimizations made to the ESXi scheduler for systems with high core count cpus. Links to additional resouces: Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shraed-Memory Multiprocessors – https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf Latency Sensitivity Improvements in vSphere 7.0 u3 for Real Time Apps – https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2021/10/extreme-performance-series-latency-sensitivity-improvements-in-vsphere-7-0-u3-for-real-time-apps.html Auto vTopology for Virtual Machines on vSphere 8 – https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2022/11/extreme-performance-series-automatic-vtopology-for-vms-vsphere8.html Scheduler Enhancements in 7.0 u2 for AMD EPYC -…Read More
On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 officially wraps up today! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and had fantastic conversations with customers, partners and colleague! The VMware Explore team has already been hard at work in getting all sessions published into the free on-demand catalog, which is available for or EVERYONE to watch, but also new this […]
