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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Virtual Machine memory overhead

Every virtual machine running on an ESX host consumes some memory overhead additional to the current usage of its configured memory....
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Re: Swapping

Recently we had a discussion about swapping, as Duncan mentioned in his article “Swapping” Swapped memory might not have impact on...
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Resource pools memory reservations

After publishing the article “impact of memory reservations” I received a lot of questions about setting memory reservation at resource pool...
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VMware tools disk timeout value Linux GOS

After I posted the “VMtools increases TimeOutValue article” I received a lot of questions if the VMware Tools automatically adjust the...
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ESX4 ALUA, TPGS and HP CA

In my blog post: “HP CA and the use of LUN balancing scripts” I tried to cover the possible impact of...
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Identify storage performance issues

VMware has recently updated the kb article “ Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues Details” (KB1008205). The KB article provides...
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VCDX tip: VMtools increases TimeOutValue

This is just a small heads-up post for all the VCDX candidates. Almost every VCDX application I read mentions the fact...
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Removing orphaned Nexus DVS

During the test of the Cisco Nexus 1000V the customer deleted the VSM first without removing the DVS using commands from...
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DRS Resource Distribution Chart

A customer of mine wanted more information about the new DRS Resource Distribution Chart in vCenter 4.0, so I thought after...
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Resource pools and avoiding HA slot sizing

Article about workaround by setting memory reservation on dedicated resource pool for VM to avoid large HA slot sizing and lower...
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