vSphere 8 vMotion Improvements
vSphere 8 was announced at VMware Explore 2022 in San Francisco. Part of this new major release are vMotion updates. vMotion is extensively developed to support new workloads and is…
Demo showing Cross vCenter vMotion between on-prem and VMware Cloud on AWS
Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion (XVM), baked into vSphere, is one of my favorite capabilities. It allows for lightweight live bulk migrations between vCenter instances that are in different Single Sign-On…
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…