Welcome to the second, and final, installment of this blog series. Part One laid the foundation of SQL Server licensing. In this blog post, you will learn about licensing an entire ESXi host, how availability affects licensing, and more about Software Assurance. Licensing an ESXi Host At some point, licensing is a combination of a Read more...
With the recent releases of both VMware vSphere 7 and SQL Server 2019 as well as changes announced to SQL Server licensing, this is a good time to discuss licensing for SQL Server when virtualized using VMs with VMware vSphere. This blog post is part one of two. In this first installment, I’ll cover the Read more...
This series of blog articles presents a set of use cases for deploying machine learning workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS and other VMware Cloud infrastructure. The first article described the use of table-based data, such as that held in relational databases, for classical machine learning on the VMware Cloud platform. We saw examples of Read more...
Intel Optane persistent memory (Optane PMem), is a new technology that bridges the gap between volatile DRAM and persistent storage. As the need for increased data processing continues to grow, optimizing SAP HANA with Intel Optane persistent memory on VMware vSphere will deliver much higher memory capacity much more affordably than with conventional DRAM memory alone. Increases in memory density Read more...
VMware vSphere has three main methods of setting up GPUs for use in VMs. This article helps you navigate through those methods. It outlines the pros and cons of using each approach so that you can judge how to proceed to best serve the needs of your machine learning user community . The detailed descriptions Read more...
