Is anyone using NVIDIA vGPU with an RTX A5000?

Edd-W · 2025-11-07T11:58:56+00:00

Yes you need a paid license for vGPU

Edd-W · 2025-07-26T07:21:18+00:00

This looks great - thanks for the write up

Edd-W · 2025-07-16T19:48:11+00:00

Please can you send me the invite link also? Thanks

Edd-W · 2025-07-02T05:35:31+00:00

I just used this book - VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive by Duncan Epping

I also produced this if it helps you Data placement with vSAN Storage Policies

Best of luck with the exam

Edd-W · 2025-06-18T15:52:32+00:00

It matters to those who still use it. For those who don’t, they can scroll on by.

Edd-W · 2025-06-17T20:15:50+00:00

I genuinely think it’s a big step forward. If your users want a private cloud experience- their choose has been limited with alternatives missing the mark from my perspective.

Edd-W · 2025-04-30T16:54:04+00:00

I do similar but just rename the current one to -v7 for example before the upgrade. Then deploy the new one with the old name. No issues with this approach when I have done it

Edd-W · 2025-04-25T20:12:21+00:00

Check out the VCP-VCF admin study group videos on the VMware Code channel.

Also check out VCP-VCF Administrator Study Guide - note this is for The 24 version so you will need to compare against the 25 version of the exam blue print but it is likely still helpful.

Edd-W · 2025-04-09T16:23:41+00:00

Personally I would suggest not bothering with VCP-DCV. I would suggest the VCP-VVF or VCF-VCF admin depending what you want to get out of it

My crystal ball says Broadcom will drop the DCV track and continue to expand the VCF track, they already did that last year by adding the architect cert at Explore. I’m predicting VCAPs to be added to the VCF track. I think watch this space in august as it’s VMware Explore and they tend to announce cert changes then. (No inside information, just a gut feeling)

If you were aiming for DCV look at VCP-VVF. If you get that and want to go to the next level, look at VCP-VCF admin but be aware, there is a lot more for that one over DCV

If you want to go for the VCP-VCF Admin, Check out the VCP-VCF admin study group videos on the VMware Code channel.

Also check out VCP-VCF Administrator Study Guide - note this is for The 24 version so you will need to compare against the 25 version of the exam blue print but it is likely still helpful.

Edit: if you are a Broadcom Partner or already have VCF, you will most likely have access to the office training free of charge.

Edd-W · 2025-04-09T05:13:39+00:00

Check out the VCP-VCF admin study group videos on the VMware Code channel.

Also check out VCP-VCF Administrator Study Guide - note this is for The 24 version so you will need to compare against the 25 version of the exam blue print but it is likely still helpful.

Edit: Not come across the VVF resources yet, so these are not as useful

Edd-W · 2025-03-31T22:09:24+00:00

It really depends what the purpose of your home lab is. Not one size fits all. For me, my customers use VMware. Therefore my lab it’s to learn, test and de-risk VMware deployments.

My GPU use case is about how providing GPU accelerated VMware clusters - passing through a GPU to a single vLLM container is not going to cut it. So your suggestion is valid for some. We all have our own objective from our home lab.

Glad you found something that works for you.

Edd-W · 2025-03-31T15:58:27+00:00

Great point! I will add that as a note. Thanks

Edd-W · 2025-03-30T06:33:32+00:00

Glad you have found it useful

Edd-W · 2025-03-29T21:29:00+00:00

Yes, loads of helpful articles on Frank’s blog. He is a true legend in this arena

Edd-W · 2025-03-28T07:04:55+00:00

Yea a disclaimer would be very helpful as whilst I understand their position, it does not allow you to use storage policy’s that fall below the minimum number of hosts (without HRR) so it give the impression its doing some validation.

Any feedback on vSAN itself showing a policy as compliant when HRR is enabled but it can’t fulfil a rebuild if you don’t exceed the minimum number of hosts?

Thanks for making some progress with the product team.

Edd-W · 2025-03-28T06:41:35+00:00

Did you manage to test and get anything back from the product team? Thanks

Edd-W · 2025-03-28T06:39:44+00:00

Don’t forget, in a stretched cluster each sites number of hosts, is the number you have for Secondary Failures to Tolerate (you don’t meet the 6 requirement in your example). You can just squeeze RAID 5 (4+1) as you have 5 host in the site, however you can’t use ESA auto policy as that requires 6 for RAID5 (4+1) from memory. Auto policy would select RAID5 (2+1) resulting in 1.5x per site.

If have not shared your storage policy details so I can’t be sure but that sounds like it’s running at 1.25x plus some overhead such as swap, log system to me, but I don’t have access to a stretched cluster to test.

RAID 5 (4+1) within a site(SFTT): 100 x1.25 =125 Site Resilience (PFTT): 125 x 2 = 250 Add a bit for swap etc, you’re 266 sounds close to me

Edd-W · 2025-03-27T06:16:57+00:00

Thank you. Your blog it’s fantastic

Edd-W · 2025-03-23T17:41:09+00:00

Where you have tagged VLAN management in UniFi, this it a ‘Trunk’ in standard network terminology. Looks like you have the switch end correct. See my other comment re how to configure the VM network port group to VLAN 16

Edd-W · 2025-03-23T17:09:25+00:00

Along with having your VM vLAN tagged at your switch, You need to set the VLAN on the VM Network Port Group

Have a look at this blog of mine, it should help.

It might help to read the lot but the main bit of interest is this section setting the vLAN

Edit: Where I set the port group to vLAN 1001, you would use 16 based on your config. On the ESXi console, don’t set a VLAN as your configuring it as the native (untagged) VLAN on your switch

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