The misconception of self-learning capabilities of Large Language Models during Production

I enjoyed engaging with many customers about bringing Gen-AI to the on-prem data center at VMware Explore. Many customers want to keep their data and IP between the four...
frankdenneman
4 min read

#47 – How VMware accelerates customers achieving their net zero carbon emissions goal

In episode 047, we spoke with Varghese Philipose about VMware’s sustainability efforts and how they help our customers meet...
frankdenneman
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#46 – VMware Cloud Flex Compute Tech Preview

We’re extending the VMware Cloud Services overview series with a tech preview of the VMware Cloud Flex Compute service....
frankdenneman
39 sec read

VMware Cloud Services Overview Podcast Series

Over the last year, we’ve interviewed many guests, and throughout the Unexplored Territory Podcast show, we wanted to provide...
frankdenneman
1 min read

Research and Innovation at VMware with Chris Wolf

In episode 042 of the Unexplored Territory podcast, we talk to Chris Wolf, Chief Research and Innovation Officer of...
frankdenneman
19 sec read

Gen AI Sessions at Explore Barcelona 2023

I’m looking forward to next week’s VMware Explore conference in Barcelona. It’s going to be a busy week. Hopefully, I will...
frankdenneman
1 min read

vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive – Using Dynamic DirectPath IO (Passthrough) with VMs 

vSphere 7 and 8 offer two passthrough options, DirectPath IO and Dynamic DirectPath IO. Dynamic DirectPath IO is the vSphere brand...
frankdenneman
5 min read

vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive – ESXi Host BIOS, VM, and vCenter Settings

To deploy a virtual machine with a vGPU, whether a TKG worker node or a regular VM, you must enable some...
frankdenneman
16 min read

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Re: impact of large pages on consolidation ratios

Gabe wrote an article about the impact of large pages on the consolidation ratio, I want to make something clear before...
frankdenneman
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Setting Correct Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved

vSphere introduced the HA admission control policy “Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved”. This policy allows the user to specify a percentage...
frankdenneman
3 min read

'Draft' of the vSphere 4.1 Hardening guide released

The ‘Draft’ of the vSphere 4.1 Hardening guide has been released. This draft will remain posted for comments until approximately the...
frankdenneman
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Beating a dead horse – using CPU affinity

Lately the question about setting CPU affinity is rearing its ugly head again. Will it offer performance advantages for the virtual...
frankdenneman
6 min read

AMD Magny-Cours and ESX

AMD’s current flagship model is the 12-core 6100 Opteron code name Magny-Cours. Its architecture is quite interesting to say at least....
frankdenneman
1 min read

Funny: HA and DRS technical deepdive audiobook

During a conversation the idea of an audiobook of the HA and DRS book spawned. Within a couple of minutes, I...
frankdenneman
37 sec read

Impact of oversized virtual machines part 3

In part 1 of the series of post on the impact of oversized virtual machines NUMA architecture, memory overhead reservation and...
frankdenneman
4 min read

Node Interleaving: Enable or Disable?

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this BIOS setting, I receive lots of questions on whether to enable...
frankdenneman
1 min read

Impact of oversized virtual machines part 2

In part 1 of the series of post on the impact of oversized virtual machines NUMA architecture, memory overhead reservation and...
frankdenneman
2 min read