Installing ESXi Kernel Modules Made Easy!
Kernel modules play a crucial role in 3rd-party solutions tightly integrated with ESXi, such as the NVIDIA vGPU solution. Installing these solutions requires deploying the kernel module, or vib, on…
The Basics of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) in vSphere
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is an extension of the Direct Memory Access (DMA) technology, which is the ability to access host memory directly without CPU intervention. RDMA allows for…
Automated Recovery for Workloads with Persistent Memory (PMEM)
Persistent Memory, using Non-Volatile Memory (NVDIMM), is a great capability that combines the speed of global system memory with persistent storage capabilities. PMEM is byte-addressable and sits on the memory…
Make ESXi Upgrades Faster with Suspend-to-Memory
Host Upgrade Time Challenges During a vSphere ESXi host upgrade, a large amount of time is spent live-migrating virtual machines (VMs) away from the host, that is being upgraded, to…
Auto-Tuning vMotion Streams
New in vSphere 7 Update 2 is that vMotion is able to fully benefit from high-speed bandwidth NICs for even faster live migrations by auto-tuning vMotion streams. Manual tuning is…