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Anbei ein paar (hoffentlich) interessante Informationen – kurz und kompakt 🙂 …. Attached some (hopefully) interesting information – short and compact.
PS: Interessanter Input immer sehr gerne willkommen – Interesting Input very welcome as always – https://blog.dudi.ch/
Thanks to my contributors and colleagues for all the support I get.
Dudi
Worth to notice
- NEW location of VMware Technical Documentation https://techdocs.broadcom.com/
- Customer outcomes drive our private cloud strategy https://news.broadcom.com/leadership/customer-outcomes-drive-our-private-cloud-strategy
- VMware Workstation and Fusion free use https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users/
Knowledge & Education
- VMware VCF Learning included – details https://www.broadcom.com/support/education/vmware
Cloud & Cloud Management
- VCF Upgrade https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/09/25/upgrade-and-patch-a-vcf-5-2-workload-domain-in-one-operation/
- VCF Lifecycle Management – YouTube Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_k3uUCO39vobTmA3fRgGwd8Igl2oCeX
- vSphere 8.0 Update 3 launches Memory Tiering in tech preview. This capability allows you to use NVMe devices that you add locally to an ESXi host as tiered memory. Memory tiering over NVMe optimizes performance by intelligently directing VM memory allocations to either NVMe devices or faster dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in the host and performing hot and cold memory page placements. This allows customers to increase their memory footprint, while increasing workload capacity and reducing the overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
- I have been playing around with it on a very small Intel NUC12 with 64 GB or RAM ….. Using the “Memory Tiering” feature I was able to blow it up to 320 GB RAM plus I was able to run a “VCF Holodeck” on a single box. Even this is of course not recommended to be used in production or a real testing platform, is shows the potential of this technology.
- Also some more on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmow0WXZGd4 and on the VMware Blog https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/07/18/vsphere-memory-tiering-tech-preview-in-vsphere-8-0u3
Network & Security
- VMware AVI (Advanced Load Balancer). VMware Avi Advanced Load Balancer (previously known as Avi Networks) is a software-defined load balancing solution that provides elastic application services, including:
- Global and local load balancing
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Application Analytics
- Automation and Multi-Cloud Support
- Some interesting links here
- Youtube series https://www.youtube.com/@Avinetworks
- Product page https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/avi-load-balancer
- eBook “Multi-Cloud Load Banacing for Dummies” https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/reg-multi-cloud-load-balancing-for-dummies
- VMware Life Site Recovery (ex SRM)
Solutions
- AI is currently one of the largest hype for all businesses and feeding into several field of technology. Privacy and control over data gets even more in focus as soon as the first “experimental” phase with AI is done. So, the question is how and where do I run my AI using my own data? One answer to this is so called “Private AI” approach. This means having the full control on data and application within the borders of your own data center. VMware Private AI is such an approach based on a fully automated platform called VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Some interesting links here
- https://thecuberesearch.com/examining-the-vmware-private-ai-foundation-with-nvidia-vision/
- https://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/private-ai#key-initiatives
- https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/private-ai/foundation-with-nvidia/5-2/private-ai-foundation-5-2.html
- https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/private-ai-foundation-nvidia
- https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vvs/1-0/private-ai-ready-infrastructure-for-vmware-cloud-foundation/detailed-design-for-private-ai-foundation-with-nvidia.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-QnC6rkX0
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_k3uUCO39su4xxqyV1jNh8XmF8EXsdD
- Database as a Service – VMware Data Services Manager. Managing databases as a service is a common and growing field of automated and advanced services. Many applications (as as well Private AI) required instant access and creation of database services.
- Great YouTube Series by Cormac Hogan – cool stuff https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxyYv0Y2vCUK0LO0FHSyu-MWWlAx8T7z
- DSM Documentation ->> https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/dsm/data-services-manager/2-1.html
Events:
- VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025 August 25 – 28th 2025
Cheers 🙂
Dudi
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