Basic Terminologies Large Language Models

Many organizations are in the process of deploying large language models to apply to their use cases. Publically available Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are trained on...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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'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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Impact of oversized virtual machines part 1

Recently we had an internal discussion about the overhead an oversized virtual machine generates on the virtual infrastructure. An oversized virtual...
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