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Virtualizing HPC Throughput Computing with CPU Over-commitment

Michael Cui posted December 3rd, 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...

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

Erik Rieger posted September 17th, 2018

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...

How Virtualization Helps in the Data Science and Machine Learning Lab – Part 1

Justin Murray posted June 29th, 2018

One of the most exciting aspects of data science and machine learning (ML) is the pace of technical innovation that is happening in these fields. New tools, platforms, models and data science workbenches are being created at a rapid pace – so rapid, in fact, that it is difficult for the practitioner to keep up Read more...

Licensing Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Cloud on AWS Environment

Deji posted June 8th, 2018

…. From Part I As enterprise IT teams, leadership and business owners continuously drive towards service improvements, they invariably look at the public cloud infrastructure as a possible target for their mission critical applications. Whereas virtualization is now generally accepted as the default platform for enterprise-grade applications, businesses looking to leverage the public cloud for Read more...

New Architectures for Apache Spark™ and Big Data

Mohan Potheri posted December 20th, 2017

Key Trends in Big Data Infrastructure: Some of the key trends in big data infrastructure over the past couple of years are: • Decoupling of Compute and Storage Clusters • Separate compute virtual machines from storage VMs • Data is processed and scaled independently of compute • Dynamic Scaling of compute nodes used for analysis Read more...