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Testing SAP S/4HANA on Stretched Cluster for VMware Cloud on AWS

Vas Mitra posted December 13, 2018

VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster configurations (referred to as stretched storage clusters or metro storage clusters) are implemented across two datacenters with limited distance to provide benefits like: Workload mobility Cross-site automated load balancing Enhanced downtime avoidance. Stretched cluster deployment includes: maintaining two datacenter locations; deploying a single storage subsystem spanning both sites; stretching the Read more...

Oracle Java SE 8 Support Update – What it means to VMware customers

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted December 8, 2018

Introduction   This blog attempts to address the concerns around the recent Java SE 8 public updates and what it means to VMware customers who use Java in their environment. The below content is a collection of updates from Oracle Corporation which has been accumulated and posted in this blog for ease of reading for Read more...

Virtualizing HPC Throughput Computing with CPU Over-commitment

Michael Cui posted December 3, 2018

High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads have traditionally been run only on bare-metal, unvirtualized hardware. However, performance of these highly parallel technical workloads has increased dramatically over the last decade with the introduction of increasingly sophisticated hardware support for virtualization, enabling organizations to begin to embrace the numerous benefits that a virtualization platform can offer. This Read more...

Virtualizing GPU Accelerated SQream Database Management Systems on VMware vSphere (Part 2 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted November 29, 2018

In Part 1 of this series we looked at the challenges facing Analytics workloads, the potential need for GPU based relational databases and the setup of the validation environment. In this part we will look at the results from the validation of the vSphere virtualized SQream Database for data loading and querying. DB Data Loading Read more...

Virtualizing GPU Accelerated SQream Database Management Systems on VMware vSphere (Part 1 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted November 29, 2018

Compute Performance is the new challenge for data analytics Traditional enterprise databases, designed in the past century, fail to scale out effectively to meet the needs of the new streaming analytics applications. X86-based compute alone is unable to keep up with compute needs as the volume of data and its need for speedy processing have Read more...