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Solving vNUMA Topology Mismatch When Migrating between Dual Socket Servers and Quad Socket Servers

March 11, 2022
I recently received a few questions from customers migrating between clusters with different CPU socket footprints. The challenge is not necessarily migrating ... Read More...
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Stop designing your server platform with solely the CPU roadmap in mind

December 20, 2021
Over the last 20 years, we designed our core data center platform following the CPU roadmap. But in today's world, the devices attached to the processor make r... Read More...
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Exciting Sessions from NVIDIA GTC Fall 2021

December 9, 2021
A list of exciting sessions of this falls NVIDIA GTC conference on data science, inference, machine learning in retail and other AI related topics... Read More...
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vSphere 7 Cores per Socket and Virtual NUMA

December 2, 2021
Regularly I meet with customers to discuss NUMA technology, and one of the topics that are always on the list is the Cores per Socket setting and its potential... Read More...
7470 views8 min read

DRS threshold 1 does not initiate Load balancing vMotions

October 22, 2021
vSphere 7.0 introduces DRS 2.0 and its new load balancing algorithm. In essence, the new DRS is completely focused on taking care of the needs of the VMs and d... Read More...
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Project Monterey and the need for Network Cycles Offload for ML Workloads.

October 6, 2021
VMworld has started, and that means a lot of new announcements. One of the most significant projects VMware is working on is project Monterey. Project Monterey... Read More...
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Machine Learning Infrastructure from a vSphere Infrastructure Perspective

August 12, 2021
For the last 18 months, I've been focusing on machine learning, especially how customers can successfully deploy machine learning infrastructure on a vSphere i... Read More...
1621 views2 min read
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CPU pinning is not an exclusive right to a CPU core!

June 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/MrsBrookfield/status/1402955235497287685 Katarina tweeted a very expressive tweet about her love/hate (mostly hate) relation with ... Read More...
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VM Service – Help Developers by Aligning Their Kubernetes Nodes to the Physical Infrastructure

May 3, 2021
The vSphere 7.0 U2a update released on April 27th introduces the new VM service and VM operator. Hidden away in what seems to be a trivial update is a collecti... Read More...
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vSphere with Tanzu vCenter Server Network Configuration Overview

November 6, 2020
I noticed quite a few network-related queries about the install of vSphere with Tanzu together with vCenter Server Networks (Distributed Switch and HA-Proxy). ... Read More...
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About the Author

Frank Denneman is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware. Frank focuses on Machine Learning Infrastructure and on compute resource management such as DRS and NUMA. He is the author of multiple books, including “vSphere 6.5 Host Technical Deep Dive” and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series. He is the host of two podcasts: “Unexplored Territory” (English) and “In the aap gelogeerd” (Dutch).

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