Entries by Eric Sloof

The PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation is an Open Source PowerShell module for interacting with the VMware Cloud Foundation (SDDC Manager and Cloud Builder) public APIs.

NVIDIA vGPU allows vSphere to share NVIDIA GPUs among multiple VMs by using either the timesliced vGPU profile or the MIG-with-vGPU profile (we will call this MIG vGPU throughout this paper). These two vGPU modes provide a flexible choice on how GPUs are shared to best leverage the GPU resource.
With two options available, you might wonder if you should choose vGPU or MIG vGPU. This paper explores multiple use cases of the two profiles with different workloads, from ML training to ML inference and other workloads. We also show you how to choose the right profile for your workloads to maximize the benefits of vGPU and MIG vGPU.

vSphere has been the de-facto data centre infrastructure platform of choice for the past decade. In recent years, a new platform has emerged - Kubernetes. But even Kubernetes benefits by running on vSphere. VMware has embraced Kubernetes and has their own Tanzu branded distributions available, which have been integrated with many existing vSphere products.

This can be overwhelming for the vSphere administrators, who have traditionally managed virtual machine workloads, but are now faced with new concepts such as containers, Kubernetes, Pods, persistent volumes, load balancers, etc.

This is a book designed to help traditional vSphere Administrators take their first tentative steps with Kubernetes. It introduces the concept of containers, before moving into Kubernetes and discussing some of the most common entities found in Kubernetes, particularly focusing on compute, storage and networking.

The book describes some of the most common ways of deploying Kubernetes before moving onto VMware Tanzu branded distributions, such as TKG and vSphere with Tanzu. Deploying TKG and vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere infrastructure is examined in details, along with Container Network Interfaces (CNI) and Container Storage Interfaces (CSI). Particular focus is paid to day 2 operations, and the tooling available to assist with managing, monitoring and troubleshooting these products.

The book written by Cormac Hogan finishes with some discussion about DevOps and DevSecOps, and shows what opportunities are available for a vSphere Administrator who is building up their skill-set in the world of Kubernetes.

Cross vCenter vMotion capability. The demo shows the two migration workflows, performing a workload migration from an on-prem vSphere infrastructure to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC while the workload remains 'live' and pingable!

More info and demos here: vmc.techzone.vmware.com