Category: VMware

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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.

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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.

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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 02

Trove of VMware Project Monterey Resources

At VMworld 2020 VMware announced a partnership with NVIDIA called project Monterey. One of the central parts of this is SmartNIC’s (BlueField-2 DPU). This post covers some of the publicly available content around the announcement.

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Jan 08

Farming NVIDIA Jetson Based Thin Clients

Jetson Nano sitting on its box

In most organizations GPU powered thin clients (or any thin clients for that matter) are used for about 8 hours a day and the rest of the time they sit idle, not delivering value to the organization. Why not use their GPU processing power to accelerate organizational research?

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Sep 19

Workspace One Apple iOS 9.3 Enrollment

When enrolling an iOS 9.3 device with the AirWatch Agent. I would make it to step 5 in the list. At which point it would launch a safari web browser to get to the AirWatch MDM site for the organization, so that the device can download a MDM profile. Once it got to the site the progress bard would only progress to about 66% then it would stop responding. If you tried to do anything safari would crash and you would need to restart the enrollment process from the beginning.

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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?

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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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Feb 17

2019 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Community Advisors #NGCA

Today the 2019 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA) was announced. I am pleased to share that I have been selected to join this wonderful group again for another year.

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Oct 26

vGPU PowerCLI Commands

PowerCLI Screen on vGPUs

I’m a noob when it comes to PowerCLI, I can Get-VM like most everyone else, but not much more.  You may have seen my previous post about Taking Back Resources where I talked about the theory and logic behind vGPU cycle harvesting. Right now I’m working on putting it into action and the best way …

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