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Highlights of New Features and Improvements in…

Highlights of New Features and Improvements in vSphere 7/vSAN 7/NSX-T 3 for High Performance Computing and Machine Learning

Highlights of New Features and Improvements in…

vSphere 7.0 is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade, with a completely new design to power modernization of both infrastructure and applications. The headline news is that vSphere now support Kubernetes natively, so that you can run VMs and containers on the same platform. In addition, the new release of vSphere 7.0 The post Highlights of New Features and Improvements in vSphere 7/vSAN 7/NSX-T 3 for High Performance Computing and Machine Learning appeared first on Virtualize…Read More


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Better together: #vSphere 7 and #Horizon 7.12…

Better together: #vSphere 7 and #Horizon 7.12 with #Nvidia vGPUs

Better together: #vSphere 7 and #Horizon 7.12…

Current situations accelerate the demand for virtual desktops and a proper virtual desktop infrastructure. I am working for years in the field of the software-defined datacenter and virtual desktops delivered via VMware Horizon. While standard office virtual desktops have become something like a …Read More


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Heads Up – Nested ESXi crashes in ESXi 7.0…

Heads Up – Nested ESXi crashes in ESXi 7.0 running on older CPUs

Heads Up – Nested ESXi crashes in ESXi 7.0…

Thanks to Patrik Kernstock, who works in our Technical Support organization at VMware, for making me aware of an issue related to Nested ESXi running on an ESXi host that has been upgraded to ESXi 7.0. Several folks in the community have noticed after upgrading their Intel NUC 7th Gen and …Read More


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Machine Learning on vSphere: Choosing A Best…

Machine Learning on vSphere: Choosing A Best Method for GPU Deployment with VMs

Machine Learning on vSphere: Choosing A Best…

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 The post Machine Learning on vSphere: Choosing A Best Method for GPU Deployment with VMs appeared first on Virtualize Applications.


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Quick Tip – Allow unsupported CPUs when…

Quick Tip – Allow unsupported CPUs when upgrading to ESXi 7.0

Quick Tip – Allow unsupported CPUs when…

As outlined in the vSphere 7.0 release notes (which everyone should carefully read through before upgrading), the following CPU processors are no longer supported: Intel Family 6, Model = 2C (Westmere-EP) Intel Family 6, Model = 2F (Westmere-EX) To help put things into perspective, these …Read More


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Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading…

Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading to ESXi 7.0

Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading…

Several folks in the community had reported issues that after upgrading from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0, their Samsung NVMe PCIe SSDs were no longer showing up. The first report of this was from Ivo Beerens and eventually found that reinstalling ESXi from scratch works but certainly that was not ideal. …Read More


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Replacing VMware ESXi SSL Certificate in VMware…

Replacing VMware ESXi SSL Certificate in VMware Cloud Foundation

Replacing VMware ESXi SSL Certificate in VMware…

This blog post describes the steps to follow in order to replace an SSL certificate for ESXi hosts in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The steps mentioned in blog are verified against ESXi 6.7, 7.0 and VCF 4.0 versions and applicable to Management domain and Workload domains. By default, vSphere …Read More


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