To troubleshoot a particular NUMA client behavior in a heterogenous multi-cloud environment, I needed to set up an ESXi7.0 environment. Currently, my lab is ru... Read More...
By default, vSphere manages the vCPU configuration and vNUMA topology automatically. vSphere attempts to keep the VM within a NUMA node until the vCPU count of... Read More...
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the new vSphere 8 CPU Topology Device Assignment feature, and I hope this article will help you understand (when ... Read More...
I'm noticing a trend that more ESXi hosts have Sub-NUMA Clustering enabled. Typically this setting is used in the High-Performance Computing space or Telco wor... Read More...
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...
