Understanding Activation Memory in Mixture of Experts Models – Frank Denneman
Explains how activation memory behaves in Mixture of Experts models and why long-context and agentic inference introduce unpredictable activation peaks during prefill phases.
Durable Agentic AI Sessions in GPU Memory | How agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and why this changes GPU memory planning for on prem infrastructure. – #vExpert Frank Denneman
How agentic AI workloads accumulate KV cache across reasoning steps and tool calls and why this changes GPU memory planning for on prem infrastructure.
How To Perform Real Workload Recovery With VMware Live Site Recovery
Demonstration of Real Failover with VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR), simulating failover of production Domain Controllers and clustered MSSQL Server workloads, without any administrative intervention beyond what’s pre-configured before the DR event.
Deploying and Using the VMware Health and Security Toolkit (HST) | A complete walkthrough of deploying the VMware Health and Security Toolkit appliance and performing infrastructure health and security assessments. – Devyn Harrington
A complete walkthrough of deploying the VMware Health and Security Toolkit appliance and performing infrastructure health and security assessments.
Deploying Intel TDX in VCF9 | This post walks through how to deploy and validate Intel TDX in VCF 9.0, using a modern Dell PowerEdge server (R760) as a reference platform. The steps apply to any server with TDX-capable Intel Xeon CPUs. – #vExpert Lukas Klinger, hcidude’s blog
A hands-on guide for infrastructure engineers | Confidential Computing is no longer a niche cloud feature – it’s moving into on-prem and private cloud platforms. With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, VMware officially supports Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), enabling virtual machines […]
SOLVED: VCF Compute Manager Failed | Fix NSX Error 90204 (Invalid Certificate Chain) – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski #vmware #vcf
Are you stuck on the dreaded “Unable to configure fabric” error during your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bring-up? 🛑 The SDDC Manager UI tells you to check for “stale extensions”—but it’s sending you on a wild goose chase! In this video, I expose the REAL reason your NSX Compute Manager […]
Accelerating Business Agility with VMware Cloud Foundation Automation
Enterprises are under pressure to deliver digital services faster, operate more efficiently, and support modern application and AI initiatives—all while maintaining governance, security, and cost control. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) brings these capabilities together in a unified platform […]
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Intel TDX vs AMD SEV-SNP in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – #vExpert Lukas Klinger, hcidude’s blog
The Complete Confidential Computing Comparison for Private Cloud Architects | Confidential Computing is no longer a hyperscaler-only topic. With VMware Cloud Foundation 9, Confidential Virtual Machines are officially supported on both Intel and AMD platforms. After deploying Intel TDX in […]
Automating ESXi Host Preparation for VCF 9 with PowerShell – #vExpert Paul van Dieën
Automating ESXi Host Preparation for VCF 9 with PowerShell: When commissioning ESXi hosts into SDDC Manager as part of a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 deployment, there are a handful of preparation steps that need to be done on every host before it can be added to the inventory. Doing this […]
Understanding Cost Modeling in VMware Cloud Foundation Operations | A practical walkthrough of how VMware Cloud Foundation Operations models infrastructure cost, distributes that cost across workloads, and extends the model with software licensing. – Devyn Harrington
A practical walkthrough of how VMware Cloud Foundation Operations models infrastructure cost, distributes that cost across workloads, and extends the model with software licensing.
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vSAN Stretched Cluster – #vExpert Leif Hegdal, VM Infrastructure
What is a stretched cluster? A vSAN stretched cluster is a deployment model where a single vSAN cluster is extended across two geographically separated data centers, with a third site hosting the Witness Appliance. This architecture provides site‑level resilience by synchronously mirroring […]
How To Perform Test Recovery With VMware Live Site Recovery
Demonstration of Test Failover with VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR), simulating failover of production DCs and clustered MSSQL Server workloads, without interrupting Production or the need for complex reconfiguration or scheduled outage.
Improving Workloads Availability on VCF with vMotion Application Notification | A short video demonstrating how to configure and validate the functionalities of the new Host vMotion Application Notification feature in VMware Cloud Foundation.
A short video demonstrating how to configure and validate the functionalities of the new Host vMotion Application Notification feature in VMware Cloud Foundation.
Installing and Configuring Microsoft SQL Server Availability Group on VMware Cloud Foundation
Video walkthrough of the steps required to successfully deploy and configure Microsoft SQL Server (Windows version) for application-level High Availability, using the Always On Availability Group option.
Simplify Multisite PoCs Using Holodeck
In the current enterprise landscape, the ability to validate high availability and disaster recovery (DR) architectures is a prerequisite for operational excellence. However, for proof of concepts (PoCs) and learning, the infrastructure required to stage these environments—traditionally […]
VCF Operations Management Pack Builder Authentication Methods | In this blog we’ll detail the supported authentication methods and walk through an example of each, there are 5 total: – #vExpert Brock Peterson
We’ve discussed the VCF Operations Management Pack Builder (MPB) a few times so far: • Aria Operations Management Pack Builder • Building a Management Pack with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder • vROPs Management Pack BuilderIn this blog we’ll detail the supported […]
Troubleshooting VCF Operations 9: Identity Provider Connection Failures (vIDM) – #vExpert Piotr Tarnawski
After a fresh deployment or a network reconfiguration (IP/Gateway change) of VCF Operations 9, attempts to connect to the Identity Provider (vIDM/Workspace ONE Access) fail during the “Test Connection” phase. […]
vSAN ESA Witness memory and CPU resources? – Duncan Epping
Not sure when this happened, but somehow the resource requirements for the vSAN Witness VM disappeared. Someone asked me last week how much memory is allocated to a VM, and how many vCPUs. Now, of course, this depends on the profile you select as the Witness VM has an M, L, and XL profile. […]
