Category: Programming

Oct 06 2021

Talk Nerdy to Me VMworld {code} Session 2778

Here you will find resources from VMworld Code Session 2778 – Talk Nerdy to Me, Using Python to Create VMs with vGPUs for AI Workloads.

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Oct 05 2021

VMTN2835 – Update to VDI by Day Compute by Night

This is post for my VMworld 2021 vBrownbag session VMTN2835. This session covers updates to the VDI by day compute by night scripts that I’ve been writing and updating for a couple of years. You can download all of the modules needed for this from my GitHub repo.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/vmtn2835-update-to-vdi-by-day-compute-by-night/

Oct 04 2021

New PowerCLI Module – Finding vGPU Profiles

A deep dive on a PowerCLI module for finding vGPU profiles, used as part of VDI by day Compute by Night scripts. This PowerShell script finds what vGPU profiles are supported by a given set of hosts and reports it back as an object collection.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/powershell-module-finding-vgpu-profiles/

Aug 27 2021

Talk Nerdy to me & Updates at VMworld

The Wondernerd taking flight!

It’s VMworld time! Hopefully you’ve registered for VMworld. In this post you’ll find some of the sessions I’m presenting & some you wont want to miss.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/talk-nerdy-to-me-updates-at-vmworld/

Apr 13

Harnessing the Power of Python to Control vGPU Management in VMware vSphere – GTC 2021 Session E32023

In this blog I provide some insights on managing vGPUs in vSphere with Python. It sounds like a simple task to control vGPUs in vSphere, but its not as easy as it appears. I got deep into this as Johan and I were working on content for this session. I’ll cover all that and more …

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Oct 05

Sneak Peak at the Brand New Jetson Nano 2GB

How would you like a sneak peak at the brand new NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit? I have the hook up for you. NVIDIA sent one of these $59 Developer Kits for me to try.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/sneak-peak-at-the-brand-new-jetson-nano-2gb/

Aug 26

VMTN5019U The Thrifty Admin, VDI by Day Compute by Night

These are the slides from my session on VDI by Day Compute By Night slides from my vBrownBag presentation.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/vmtn5019u-the-thrifty-admin/

Mar 19

NVIDIA Jetson Nano – a Quick Look

Yesterday, March 18th, the NVIDIA Jetson Nano was announced at GTC. As you left the keynote (or when you got back to the San Jose Convention Center) you could purchase one for $99. I purchased a Nano and thought I’d give you a quick look at it.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/nvidia-jetson-nano-a-quick-look/

Mar 13

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

Cycle of VDI by Day and Compute By Night (Cycle Harvesting)

Over the weekend I finished writing a PowerCLI script to do VDI by day and compute by night. In in this post I’m going to share the script and how to set it up with you.

For those not familiar with the term VDI by day and compute by night here is my vision for it. Let’s say you have a bunch of VDI users who are structural engineers. They typically work from 8 in the morning to 5 or so at night. On their VDI desktops they have programs like like AutoCAD which require high end GPUs, but since they are using VDI they’re virtual GPUs or vGPUs. That means you have these high end GPUs that might be sitting idle for 12 to 16 hours a day and the organization spent a lot of money for those GPUs.

Now what if you could use those GPUs for something other than just engineers virtual desktops? You know, get a little more millage out of them. The R&D department keeps wanting more servers for their high performance computing (HPC) farm… What could 12 extra hours a day of GPU time coming from the Engineers idle VDI hosts do to help them?

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/scripting-vdi-by-day-and-compute-by-night/

Feb 19

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

PowerCLI Code Snippit for Carrying Capacity Function

I’ve been working on a PowerCLI function for the last few months in my free time and now I’d like to share it with everyone. This is a pretty spiffy function for those folks working with vGPUs, and it’s not just for VDI it can help those looking to virtualize ML/DL systems too. It calculates the vGPU carrying capacity of a vSphere environment.

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