Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem) is a memory technology that can deliver larger capacities compared to traditional DDR4 memory.

Increasing the memory capacity in a VMware vSphere virtualized datacenter by operating in Memory Mode allows for an increase in VM density and a subsequent increase in application capacity and performance in the same datacenter footprint.

VMware vSphere 6.7 EP10 and later versions support Intel Optane persistent memory 100 series (Intel Optane PMem) with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in App Direct and Memory Mode.

Past experiments have found some performance challenges with Memory Mode in certain circumstances as seen in a previous whitepaper.

A new persistent memory BIOS profile for Memory Mode has been developed that improves performance in some of these cases.

This paper explores the performance seen with this new BIOS profile using an Enterprise Java workload and a modified version of the VMware VMmark 3.1 benchmark.

VMware vSphere Bitfusion leverages its client-server architecture to share GPUs among multiple clients. Bitfusion dynamically allocates a GPU or multiple GPUs to a remote client and releases the GPU resources when they are no longer being used. Bitfusion works across AI frameworks, clouds, networks, and in environments such as virtual machines, containers, and notebooks

This paper includes recommendations for getting the best performance from VMware vSphere Bitfusion. Hardware and software tunings are included.

The VCP-DCV 2020 certification validates candidate skills to implement, manage, and troubleshoot a vSphere V7 infrastructure, using best practices to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that can accelerate the transformation to cloud computing.

The Professional VMware vSphere 7.x Exam (2V0-21.20), which leads to the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2020 certification is a 70-item exam with a passing score of 300 using a scaled method.

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Starting now, if you pass this 2V0-21.20 exam, you will not be required to pass the broader vSphere Foundations exam.

New features of DRS in VMware vSphere 7.0 have been introduced to make VMware’s compute control plane robustly and better handle both traditional and modern application needs.

In this document, Priyanka Gayam and Adarsh Jagadeeshwaran cover the load balancing aspect of the new DRS, which is available in vSphere 7.0. Note that they refer to the older load-balancing version of DRS (vSphere 6.7 and older) as the old DRS.