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Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted October 12, 2018

In the previous blog post Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM)  , we demonstrated how performance of Oracle databases can be improved using VMware vSphere 6.7 Persistent Memory feature in different modes for the uses cases below Improved performance of Oracle Redo Log using vPMEM Disk-backed vmdks/vPMEM disks in DAX mode Accelerating Performance Read more...

How to Enable Nvidia V100 GPU in Passthrough mode on vSphere for Machine Learning and Other HPC Workloads

Michael Cui posted October 11, 2018

This blog is an update of Josh Simon’s previous blog “How to Enable Compute Accelerators on vSphere 6.5 for Machine Learning and Other HPC Workloads”, and explains how to enable Nvidia V100 GPU, which comes with a larger PCI BARs (Base Address Registers) than previous GPU models, in Passthrough mode on vSphere 6.0 p4 and Read more...

Using GPUs with Virtual Machines on vSphere – Part 4: Working with BitFusion FlexDirect

Justin Murray posted October 4, 2018

This is part 4 of a series of blog articles that give technical details of the different options available to you for setting up GPUs for compute workloads on vSphere. Part 1 of this series presents an overview of the various options for using GPUs on vSphere Part 2 describes the DirectPath I/O (Passthrough) mechanism Read more...

Sharing GPUs for Machine Learning/Deep Learning on vSphere with NVIDIA GRID – Performance Considerations

Justin Murray posted September 27, 2018

This article forms a short introduction to a more detailed description of the sharing of GPUs using NVIDIA GRID, written by members of our Performance Engineering team at VMware: Lan Vu, Uday Kurkure and Hari Sivaraman. Data scientists may use GPUs on vSphere that are dedicated to one virtual machine only for their modeling work, Read more...

Virtualized High Performance Computing (HPC) Reference Architecture (Part 2 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted September 27, 2018

In part 1 we introduced the concept of virtualizing HPC and its architecture. In part 2 we will look at the makeup of management/compute clusters and some sample designs. Management Cluster The management cluster runs the VMs that manage the virtualized HPC environment. As shown in Figure 7, these include vSphere and vSphere integrated components Read more...