Rightsizing a Machine Learning Cluster on VMware vSphere In part 1 of this 2-part article, we saw multiple applications running on Apache Spark clusters, the TensorFlow runtime, Cloudera CDH platform and other workloads – all sharing a set of physical servers that were managed by VMware vSphere. These applications operate in collections of virtual Read more...
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. We will also look at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. Common Characteristics of Business Critical Applications (BCA): Business critical Read more...
Availability: Availability of the applications is one of the important requirements for business critical applications. The vSphere platform provides capabilities to protect against hardware and software failures to meet the stringent SLA requirements of business critical applications. Virtualized applications can avail of features such as vSphere HA protects from HW failures by restarting virtual machines on Read more...
You cannot afford for business critical applications in your datacenter to go down just to upgrade them. With that in mind, let’s look at which events might provide a good opportunity to virtualize applications in your datacenter. Below are some questions to ask when considering virtualization. If you answer “yes” to any of the questions, it might Read more...
The following best practices for virtualizing Java can provide useful guidance for virtual CPU, virtual memory, networking and storage setup. Learn more: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications Whitepaper [39-page PDF] Read more...
