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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...
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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...
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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...
8 min read

What’s Your Favorite Tech Novel?

July 30, 2020
Today I was discussing with Duncan some great books to read. Disconnecting fully from work is difficult for me, so typically, the books I read are tech-related... Read More...
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New whitepaper available on vSphere 7 DRS Load Balancing

July 22, 2020
vSphere 7 contains the new DRS algorithm that differs tremendously from the old one. The performance team has put the new algorithm through the test and have p... 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 the podcast: “Unexplored Territory“.