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Reading Time: 4 minutes IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware ESXi partitions layout includes some old FAT partitions used for the two bootbanks. A strange choice that can bring, in some cases, the corruption of those partitions and you may notice during an upgrade. With vSphere 8.0 the suggested update procedure is using the images instead of the (old) baselines.

Reading Time: < 1 minute On month ago VMware released the VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 with vCenter Server 8.0 Update 3 release instead is a General Availability (GA), but with  ESXi 8.0 Update 3 release is an Initial Availability (IA). Now finally also ESXi 8.0 Update 3 is in General Availability (GA) so that we can consider almost ready for production.

Reading Time: < 1 minute To enhance the commitment to customer satisfaction, VMware has just announced the decision of extending the general support period for VMware vSphere 7.x of six month, from April 2, 2025 to October 2, 2025. 

Reading Time: 2 minutes Like every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere upgrade or update you have to check all compatibility aspects. One is related to the backup software that can be critical because you may loose the capability to perform backup and/or restore. For Veeam Backup & Replication there is a specific Veeam KB (KB 2443) that provides information about compatibility between VMware vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication.

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series is designed to maximize bandwidth with the new high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This new processor is architected to unlock performance and speed discoveries in data-intensive workloads, such as modeling, artificial intelligence, deep learning, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics.

Reading Time: 3 minutes GPU support in VMware vSphere has been for a while starting with the VDI scenario. But can GPUs be used in vSphere for applications other than VDI? Using GPU not for graphics but for computing… because for some type of operation, GPU can be better than CPU. For example, machine learning models involve very large matrix multiplications and GPUs are designed to compute these operations much faster than CPUs. VMware vSphere allows your end users to consume GPUs in VMs in the same way they do in any GPU-enabled public cloud instance or on bare […]

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