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Using GPUs with Virtual Machines on vSphere – Part 3: Installing the NVIDIA GRID Technology

Justin Murray posted 2 days ago

In this article, we describe the NVIDIA GRID method for using GPU devices on vSphere. Earlier in Part 2 we explored the VMDirectPath I/O or Passthrough method. Part 1 in this GPU series describes the various options at a higher level. The focus in this blog is on the use of GPUs for compute workloads (such Read more...

SAP HANA on Intel Skylake and Broadwell Support for VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7

Erik Rieger posted 2 days ago

As of September 14, 2018, SAP HANA is supported for production use on Intel Skylake SP and Broadwell based server systems on vSphere 6.5 and 6.7. Please review SAP note “2393917 – SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 in production” for details. The table below summarizes the current support for and SAP HANA with Read more...

Investigation of SAP NetWeaver with Persistent Memory on vSphere 6.7

Vas Mitra posted 6 days ago

In this article we investigate the performance of an SAP NetWeaver system with Persistent Memory (PMEM) on vSphere 6.7 (SAP NetWeaver is supported on vSphere 6.7).  vSphere 6.7 introduces support for PMEM which is a storage class that resides between DRAM and disk storage in the data storage hierarchy. It includes advantages of DRAM-like latency Read more...

Using GPUs with Virtual Machines on vSphere – Part 2: VMDirectPath I/O

Justin Murray posted September 11, 2018

This is part 2 of a series of blog articles on the subject of using GPUs with VMware vSphere. The first article in the series can be found here In this article we describe the VMDirectPath I/O mechanism (also called “passthrough”) for using a GPU on vSphere. Further articles in the series will describe other Read more...

Updated – Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere Best Practices

Oleg Ulyanov posted September 11, 2018

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely deployed database platforms in the world, with many organizations having dozens or even hundreds of instances deployed in their environments. In addition, SQL Server is on the top of virtualized applications on the VMware vSphere platform. In continuous effort to facilitate the virtualized deployments of SQL Read more...