My Sessions at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas

Next week we are back in Las Vegas. Busy times ahead with meeting customers, old friends, making new friends, and presenting a few sessions. Next week I will present...
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#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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive –NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite

vSphere allows assigning GPU devices to a VM using VMware’s (Dynamic) Direct Path I/O technology (Passthru) or NVIDIA’s vGPU technology. The...
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vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive – GPU Device Differentiators

The two last parts reviewed the capabilities of the platform. vSphere can offer fractional GPUs to Multi-GPU setups, catering to the...
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vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive for Distributed Training – Multi-GPU

The first part of the series reviewed the capabilities of the vSphere platform to assign fractional and full GPU to workloads....
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ML Session at CTEX VMware Explore

Next week during VMware Explore, VMware is also organizing the Customer Technical Exchange. I’m presenting the session “vSphere Infrastructure for Machine...
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vSphere 8 CPU Topology for Large Memory Footprint VMs Exceeding NUMA Boundaries

By default, vSphere manages the vCPU configuration and vNUMA topology automatically. vSphere attempts to keep the VM within a NUMA node...
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Unexplored Territory Podcast EP30 – Project Keswick with Alan Renouf

While preparing the podcast, I knew this episode would be good. Edge technology immensely excites me, and the way the project...
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vSphere 8 CPU Topology Device Assignment

There seems to be some misunderstanding about the new vSphere 8 CPU Topology Device Assignment feature, and I hope this article...
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Could not initialize plugin ‘libnvidia-vgx.so – Check SR-IOV in the BIOS

I was building a new lab with some NVIDIA A30 GPUs in a few hosts, and after installing the NVIDIA driver...
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Sub-NUMA Clustering

I’m noticing a trend that more ESXi hosts have Sub-NUMA Clustering enabled. Typically this setting is used in the High-Performance Computing...
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VMware Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

Overcome Your AI/ML Challenges with VMware + NVIDIA AI-Ready Enterprise Platform (Presented by VMware, Inc.) Tuesday, Sep 20, 8:00 PM...
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vSphere 8 and vSan 8 Unexplored Territory Podcast Double Header

This week we released two episodes covering the vSphere 8 and vSan 8 releases. Together with Feidhlim O’Leary, we discover all...
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Unexplored Territory – VMware Explore USA Special

This week Duncan and I attended VMware Explore to co-present the session “60 Minutes of Virtually Speaking Live: Accelerating Cloud Transformation.”...
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New vSphere 8 Features for Consistent ML Workload Performance

vSphere 8 is full of enhancements. Go to blogs.vmware.com or yellow-bricks.com for more extensive overviews of the vSphere 8 release. In this article, I want...
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