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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...

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Using Persistent memory with a virtual Microsoft SQL Server – vPMem mode

Oleg Ulyanov posted August 22nd, 2018

We’re continuing our blog series dedicated to the great persistent memory technology. In the Part I we discussed the way of configuring a PMem device on an ESXi host. In this part we will cover how an instance of Microsoft SQL Server (further referenced as SQL Server) can consume virtual NVDIMM device in vPMem (Direct-access Read more...

Using GPUs with Virtual Machines on vSphere – Part 1: Overview

Justin Murray posted July 3rd, 2018

Your company’s data scientists, machine learning practitioners or developers have asked you to provide them with a GPU-capable machine setup to do their work. They want to be able to execute workloads that need GPU compute power. The data scientist describes the workloads as machine learning “training”, “inference” or “development”. We will explain what they Read more...

How Virtualization Helps in the Data Science and Machine Learning Lab – Part 2

Justin Murray posted July 3rd, 2018

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...