While virtualizing an instance of SQL Server the following questions often appear: “what availability features should I use? Should I implement SQL Server or vSphere high availability options?” The blog article helps to select the most effective combination of high availability options from both products. SQL Server High Availability features Table 1 summarizes SQL Server Read more...
This article directs you to a recent webinar that VMware produced on the topic of executing distributed machine learning with TensorFlow and Horovod running on a set of VMs on multiple vSphere host servers. Many machine learning problems are tackled using a single host server today (with a collection of VMs on that host). However, Read more...
This article describes the live migration (vMotion) of a virtual machine that has a machine learning (ML) training exercise running in it from one host physical server to another, without interruption. If you are already familiar with VMware, then a vMotion like this will be very well known to you, as it is vital to Read more...
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) represent a key accelerator technology on vSphere for those who are working in the fields of machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC). Traditionally, GPUs have been used by those who want to do high-end graphics, such as product design/CAD in VDI workloads on vSphere. We place our focus here Read more...
In this article we show an experimental deployment of a test S/4HANA system running SAP HANA 2.0 SP3 on vSphere 6.7 with persistent memory (PMEM) – this is the first version of HANA that supports PMEM and is PMEM aware. Note: SAP HANA is not yet supported by SAP on vSphere on persistent memory. We Read more...
