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Bitfusion Performance Best Practices

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A guide about VMware vSphere Bitfusion performance best practices has been published. Bitfusion provides a way to share GPUs among multiple VMs—a GPU card installed in one ESXi host becomes available to all VMs in a cluster (even those on separate hosts) that have the Bitfusion client installed. In addition, Bitfusion dynamically allocates a partial Read more...
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Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 7.0

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We are pleased to announce the availability of Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0. This is a comprehensive book designed to help system administrators obtain the best performance from their vSphere 7.0 deployments. The book covers new features as well as updating and expanding on topics covered in previous versions. These topics include: Persistent memory Read more...
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Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 6.7

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We are pleased to announce the availability of Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.7. This is a comprehensive book designed to help system administrators obtain the best performance from their vSphere 6.7 deployments. Note: Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 is also available. The book covers new features as well as Read more...

vCenter Server 6.5 High Availability Performance and Best Practices

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High availability (aka HA) services are important in any platform, and VMware vCenter Server® is no exception. As the main administrative and management tool of vSphere, it is a critical element that requires HA. vCenter Server HA (aka VCHA) delivers protection against software and hardware failures with excellent performance for common customer scenarios, as shown Read more...

Peeking At The Future with Giant Monster Virtual Machines

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Remember that cool project with VMware, HP Enterprise, and IBM where four super huge monster virtual machines (VMs) of 120 vCPUs each were all running at the same time on a single server with great performance? That was Project Capstone, and it was presented at VMworld San Francisco and VMworld Barcelona last fall as a Read more...

Virtualized Storage Performance: RAID Groups versus Storage pools

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RAID, a redundant array of independent disks, has traditionally been the foundation of enterprise storage. Grouping multiple disks into one logical unit can vastly increase the availability and performance of storage by protecting against disk failure, allowing greater I/O parallelism, and pooling capacity. Storage pools similarly increase the capacity and performance of storage, but are Read more...

VMware Horizon 6 with View: Performance Testing and Best Practices

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In the blog here, we just published the updated white paper VMware Horizon 6 with View Performance and Best Practices that describes the performance gains achieved with the latest Horizon 6 enhancements. The paper details the architecture systems used for testing the features and recommends best practices for configuring your system. The white paper talks about the following Read more...

VMware View Planner 3.5 and Use Cases

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by   Banit Agrawal     Nachiket Karmarkar VMware View Planner 3.5 was recently released which introduces a slew of new features, enhancements in user experience, and scalability. In this blog, we present some of these new features and use cases. More details can be found in the whitepaper here. In addition to retaining all Read more...

A whitepaper on VMware Horizon 6 RDSH Performance and Best Practices

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VMware Horizon 6 delivers remote desktops and applications from a single platform. With Horizon 6, IT can deliver seamless applications and users can access their desktops or applications from anywhere on devices running Windows, Linux, MAC, iOS, and Android operating systems. In this blog, we present the Horizon 6 RDSH Performance whitepaper that shows the Read more...