Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 includes a CPU scheduler that is architecturally optimized for AMD EPYC. This scheduler is designed to take advantage of the multiple last-level caches (LLCs) per CPU socket offered by the AMD EPYC processors.

This paper shows that vSphere 7.0 U2 can achieve near optimal performance with this new CPU scheduler using out-of-the-box BIOS options and vSphere settings.

An extensive performance evaluation using both enterprise benchmarks and microbenchmarks shows that the CPU scheduler in vSphere 7.0 U2 achieves up to 50% better performance than 7.0 U1.

VMware Performance Engineering tested the limits of VMware Tanzu with Kubernetes performance in a variety of situations using two Tanzu editions: Basic and Standard.

Basic uses VMware vSphere, while Standard uses the VMware Cloud Foundation platform.

The team collected best practices during testing to help users get the best performance from their VMware Tanzu with Kubernetes clusters.

Running Kubernetes? Explore service mesh to simplify the process of connecting, protecting, and monitoring your microservices. A service mesh is an abstraction layer that takes care of service-to-service communications, observability, and resiliency in modern, cloud-native applications.

In the Service Mesh Dummies Guide You’ll Learn:

• How a service mesh can help you accelerate modern app development in your organization
• How to address new service mesh challenges
• Service mesh capabilities and traffic management use cases

Organizations can no longer rely on edge firewalls alone to provide network security. Once attackers get past an edge firewall, they can move laterally to high-value assets. This book illustrates how internal firewalls can help your organization secure east-west network traffic and prevent attackers’ lateral movements.

In the Internal Firewalls for Dummies Guide, you’ll learn:

• The different types of network traffic and the firewall types that protect them
• How distributed internal firewalls combine the best of hardware-based enterprise edge firewalls and software-based micro-segmentation solutions
• How organizations successfully deploy distributed internal firewalls