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The Fast Lane for Data Transfer – Paravirtual RDMA(PVRDMA) Support for Native Endpoints.

sahuad posted October 15, 2020

Overview Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a revolutionary technology that enables host devices (devices connected over a network) to read and write data present in their main memory without the CPU’s and the operating system’s involvement. In a nutshell, computers connected over a network using a particular type of network card can bypass remote system processors and Read more...

Learn How vSphere Will Power Your Future Career: Join the VMUG Event on Oct 15

Himanshu Singh posted October 14, 2020

If you want to invest in your career for the next decade (and beyond!) using the power of VMware vSphere, make sure you register and join the VMUG Professional Development Virtual Event. On October 15, vSphere users, experts, and enthusiasts from around the world will gather at this can’t-miss online extravaganza. From career tips to Read more...

Securing Applications with vSphere: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Bob Plankers posted October 13, 2020

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and to celebrate we are doing weekly live streams on different topics related to the weekly themes of the month. This week the overall theme is “Securing Devices at Home and Work,” and in the vSphere world we are thinking about workloads. Applications and workloads are the reason that our Read more...

vMotion Performance Study

Niels Hagoort posted October 9, 2020

The performance team recently released a whitepaper on the vMotion performance improvements in vSphere 7 (update 1). The improved vMotion logic in vSphere 7 is introduced to greatly reduce the potential performance impact during a vMotion operation, as well as shorting the switch-over time (also referred to as stun-time) when a workload is moved from Read more...

vSphere With Tanzu – Getting Started with vDS Networking Setup

Michael West posted October 8, 2020

(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware) With the release of vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware has extended the capability of vSphere with Tanzu (formerly vSphere 7 with Kubernetes) to more fully support your existing vSphere environment. The fastest way to provide developer ready Kubernetes infrastructure to DevOps teams is through vSphere with Tanzu. Read more...

Better vMotion for Graphics with EVC for GPUs

sahuad posted October 8, 2020

Overview Various vendors offer Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards with different capabilities for various use cases. GPUs were developed as a specialized tool for processing images mainly for videogames and video rendering and editing software. However, recently they are being used in a growing number of CPU intensive use cases that are not only related to picture processing but also to artificial intelligence and machine learning, thanks to their multi-core architecture Up through the Read more...

Announcing the vSphere Security Configuration Guide 7

Bob Plankers posted October 6, 2020

We are pleased to announce the availability of the vSphere Security Configuration Guide 7. The vSphere Security Configuration Guide (SCG) is the baseline for hardening and auditing guidance for VMware vSphere itself. Started more than a decade ago, it has long served as guidance for vSphere Administrators looking to protect their infrastructure. In the world Read more...

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VMware’s Project Monterey with NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

Sudhanshu Jain posted October 6, 2020

This year at VMworld, VMware announced Project Monterey, a rearchitecture of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) from the hardware up to support various application requirements as customers deploy modern cloud-native applications over VCF. Please refer to the “Project Monterey” blog here for more information. VMware’s Project Monterey is an industry-wide collaboration to integrate SmartNICs like NVIDIA’s Read more...

Announcing the ESXi-Arm Fling

Kit Colbert posted October 6, 2020

Today is an exciting day for us at VMware and I expect for many of you reading this post: the ESXi bits that run on Arm are now available for you to download and start playing with! Specifically, we’re excited to release the ESXi-Arm Fling. So what is ESXi-Arm? And what is a Fling? And Read more...

Announcing General Availability of vSphere 7 Update 1

Glen Simon posted October 6, 2020

On September 15 we announced the upcoming release of vSphere 7 Update 1. Today, I am excited to share that it is now generally available. If you missed our announcement webcast on September 15, no problem. You can watch a replay of the webcast “Up-Level to Developer-Ready Infrastructure” anytime you’d like. What’s new in vSphere 7 Update 1? vSphere 7 Update 1 introduces Read more...