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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Stop designing your server platform with solely the CPU roadmap in mind

Over the last 20 years, we designed our core data center platform following the CPU roadmap. But in today’s world, the...
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Exciting Sessions from NVIDIA GTC Fall 2021

A list of exciting sessions of this falls NVIDIA GTC conference on data science, inference, machine learning in retail and other...
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vSphere 7 Cores per Socket and Virtual NUMA

Regularly I meet with customers to discuss NUMA technology, and one of the topics that are always on the list is...
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DRS threshold 1 does not initiate Load balancing vMotions

vSphere 7.0 introduces DRS 2.0 and its new load balancing algorithm. In essence, the new DRS is completely focused on taking...
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Project Monterey and the need for Network Cycles Offload for ML Workloads.

VMworld has started, and that means a lot of new announcements. One of the most significant projects VMware is working on...
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Machine Learning Infrastructure from a vSphere Infrastructure Perspective

For the last 18 months, I’ve been focusing on machine learning, especially how customers can successfully deploy machine learning infrastructure on...
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CPU pinning is not an exclusive right to a CPU core!

Katarina tweeted a very expressive tweet about her love/hate (mostly hate) relation with CPU pinning, and lately I have been in...
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VM Service – Help Developers by Aligning Their Kubernetes Nodes to the Physical Infrastructure

The vSphere 7.0 U2a update released on April 27th introduces the new VM service and VM operator. Hidden away in what...
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vSphere with Tanzu vCenter Server Network Configuration Overview

I noticed quite a few network-related queries about the install of vSphere with Tanzu together with vCenter Server Networks (Distributed Switch...
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What’s Your Favorite Tech Novel?

Today I was discussing with Duncan some great books to read. Disconnecting fully from work is difficult for me, so typically,...
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