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On the Cutting-Edge: Top 5 Explore Sessions on Cloud Infrastructure

Are you looking to stay ahead of the curve in cloud infrastructure? Or do you want to learn how to leverage the latest tools and technologies from VMware? If so, you’ve come to the right place. 

We’ve rounded up five of the most popular sessions from our Cloud Edge Infrastructure track that will help you become a cloud expert.   

So don’t miss out – keep reading to explore what this track has in store! 

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Innovations to Accelerate Your Enterprise Cloud Transformation [CEIK2755LV]  

Modern apps are driving the need to span infrastructure operations across multiple clouds. Yet implementing multi-cloud can be complex, costly – and even dangerously slow.  

Watch VMware’s latest cloud innovations designed to bridge the gap between developer needs and infrastructure responsiveness. We introduce new cloud-agnostic solutions that consistently integrate infrastructure and security technologies across public, private, and local clouds to accelerate innovation and increase resiliency.  

In this session you will learn strategies to: Optimized performance and lower costs with agile infrastructure, enable stronger ransomware defense with secure and resilient clouds, and modernize your existing environment to take on disruptive technologies, such as GenAI. 

10 Big New Benefits of vSphere That You Absolutely Need to Know [CEIB1139LV] 

Yes, this is the VMware vSphere session you’ve been looking for!  

vSphere is the enterprise workload platform that ushers in the era of heterogeneous computing by bringing DPUs into the fold along with CPUs and GPUs—making the future of modern infrastructure accessible to all enterprises. vSphere unleashes key innovations to help customers supercharge workload performance, accelerate innovation for DevOps teams, improve operational efficiency and IT productivity, and bring the benefits of the cloud to their on-premises infrastructure.  

Join us to get the latest and greatest on what’s new with vSphere. We will give you an overview of the top capabilities of vSphere that matter most for you, as well as technical details with the newest demos, and cover 10 new and exciting things about vSphere that you absolutely need to know. 

45 Minutes of NUMA – A CPU Is Not a CPU Anymore [CODEB2761LV] 

Recently, both AMD and Intel made their flagship server CPUs available: the AMD EPYC and the fourth generation of the Intel Xeon Scalable processor. Both follow a similar paradigm of the multi-chip, multi-tile module design, impacting kernel scheduling and workload sizing to work around the application expectation of a CPU subsystem.  

Besides the traditional deep dive of NUMA scheduling, we will discuss the new VMware vSphere 8 functionality that solves the age-old question, “How many cores per socket?” We will show real-life data on NUMA locality’s importance for an ML/HPC application that runs on GPUs. We will look at the latest CPU architecture developments, such as Sapphire Rapids’ new onboard accelerators, which can help guide your data center hardware refresh.  

Enjoy this session as we dive into this exciting and critically important space. 

Tech Deep Dive: vSAN 8 ESA–Performance and Resilience Without Compromise [CEIB1101LV] 

VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture was first introduced in 2022. This HCI architecture provides customers with many performance, resilience, and operational benefits.  

In this breakout session, Pete and Duncan, the authors of the VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive book, will review the architectural details of vSAN Express Storage Architecture and discuss how you can benefit from this new architecture. They leave no stone unturned. 

Easy vSphere Lifecycle and Configuration Management with vSphere and vSphere+ [CEIB2638LV] 

In this session, you will learn how VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager makes updating and patching operations easier and simpler with a desired state image for your on-premises hosts and clusters. With a few clicks, you can apply full-stack firmware updates with a recommended image or simply apply host configurations cluster-wide with vSphere Configuration Profiles.  

By utilizing vSphere Lifecycle Manager as a service, you can further enhance your vSphere lifecycle management experience by showing current states of your entire vSphere inventory whether they are in data centers or edges.  

You will learn how to plan, prepare, precheck and roll out updates to your entire fleet from a single pane in vSphere+. You can apply desired configurations to multiple clusters and VMware vCenter instances, and view drifts across your fleet through the new configuration as a service with vSphere+. 


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And, of course, be sure to check out the full VMware Explore video library for even more learning!