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

Mohan Potheri posted November 29th, 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 29th, 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...

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

Mohan Potheri posted September 27th, 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...

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...

Updated – Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere Best Practices

Oleg Ulyanov posted September 11th, 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...