Richard Lu joined us to talk basics of NUMA, Cores per Socket, why modern windows and mac systems have a default 2 cores per socket setting, how cores per sock... Read More...
I recently received a few questions from customers migrating between clusters with different CPU socket footprints. The challenge is not necessarily migrating ... Read More...
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...
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...
In the previous article "PCIe Device NUMA Node Locality" I covered the physical connection between the processor and the PCIe device briefly touched upon machi... Read More...
During this Christmas break, I wanted to learn PowerCLI properly. As I'm researching the use-cases of new hardware types and workloads in the data center, I ma... Read More...
Recently AMD announced the 2nd generation of the AMD EPYC CPU architecture, the EPYC 7002 series. Most refer to the new CPU architecture using its interna... Read More...
AMD is gaining popularity in the server market with the EPYC CPU platform. The EPYC CPU platform provides a high core count and a large memory capacity. If you... Read More...
This week I had the pleasure to talk to a customer about NUMA use-cases and a very interesting config came up. They have a VM with a particular memory configura... Read More...
