Apr 13
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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Aug 26
These are the slides from my session on VDI by Day Compute By Night slides from my vBrownBag presentation.
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Mar 13
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
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
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
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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Sep 14
In this post I’m looking at reclaiming resources from virtual environments. To which you might be saying that’s simple, VMware put out a white paper on cycle harvesting. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-jackson-national-life-insurance-white-paper.pdf The above paper was based on what a VMware customer did to reclaim idle CPU resources from their VDI environment. They did this by setting share …
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Sep 06
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our session at VMworld! And an even bigger thanks to those visiting who weren’t able to attend in person. Gina and I want to make sure you have the resources you need to understand how you can gain a competitive advantage by virtualizing your AI/ML/DL/ and …
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Mar 26
Thank you to everyone who attended session S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops, at GTC. Below are the links provided in the session today. If you have questions or need additional resources please contact me or leave a message in the comment section below. The items below that begin with a ‘/’ are shortened …
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Mar 26
Thank you to all attendees who started GTC18 at this session. I hope it was helpful for you. When recordings are available I will add them to this post as well. For your enjoyment, here are the slides from my GTC18 session, S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops. If you are interested in the …
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