Plain Virtualization

For users who have been using Nvidia GPU for machine learning processing and huge data processing, many a times, you like to know how is the GPU card been utilize and if its is sufficient.  If you are running VMware platform you will be in luck. vRealize Operations (vROps) has just the management pack from Nvidia can help you on that. If you are using GPU on your VM and you are not using Nvidia GRID (aka Nvidia AI Enterprise - NAIE) technology but using a passthrough, you might want to explore of Nvidia GRID can meet your requirement. Only certain application required the entire GPU card that is when you use passthrough. However, if that is not the case, you might have over provision your card and might be wasting resource that can be use by other. To give you a quick explanation, Nvidia GRID was the technology that is introduced by Nvidia and supported by VMware vSphere to slice your GPU just like how you do it on CPU with partnership between the two companies. With GPU sharing, y...

I often been asked and also have to refer internally what does vCenter Operations Manager (vC Ops) support in terms of plugin or adapters to what 3rd parties functions or software (in this case they are call packs). During a search recently, I realize VMware Solution Exchange contains all these plugins or adapters and I thought I should just share this.  For vC Ops, you can go directly here .  You will be entitled to these adapters (any licensing requirements please check with specific vendors) depending on the vC Ops editions you own.  For only Advanced and Enterprise would have some free adapters for use and is classified in the page.  For Advanced, other than Hyperic and AWS, most of the adapters are related to Storage performance metrics. For Enterprise Edition, you will see more 3rd parties monitoring tools like SCOM, IBM Tivoli, TeamQuest, etc are available.  Also Enterprise Edition will be able to use Advanced adapters too. A simple screenshot of ...

I have got the chance to play with vSphere 5 RTM release and rather than going through all the new features that can be found on VMware TV in youTube, I shall find some common features that are on both release and see the differences. HA Admission Control Policy vSphere 4 The Admission Control Policy for vSphere 4 as shown on the left in the percentage of cluster resources is fixed and irregardless of CPU or Memory the percentage is applied for both. vSphere 5 In vSphere 5, notice that the percentage has be split out to memory and CPU. This updated percentage options, helps eliminate when you have like to specific different amount for CPU and memory with different tolerance. Virtual Machines Options vSphere 4 In the Virtual Machine Options, in was leave VM shutdown as the default value whenever Host Isolation is detected. Many of my customers actually thought this was the default value recommended by VMware and leave it as it is howeve...