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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.

VMware's performance engineers observed, under certain conditions, that ESXi IO (in versions 6.x – 7.0) with some NFS servers experienced unexpectedly low read throughput in the presence of extremely low packet loss, due to an undesirable TCP interaction between the ESXi host and the NFS server.

In this paper, Kinson Ho explains how this TCP interaction leads to poor ESXi NFS read performance, describes ways to determine whether this interaction is occurring in an environment, and presents a workaround for ESXi 7.0 that could improve performance significantly when this interaction is detected.