Brandon Frost shares his experience with memory tiering and the use of Intel Optane in his large private cloud environment. He explains how memory tiering helped optimize memory usage and reduce costs by offloading cold memory to a non-active tier. He also discusses the challenges of upgrading memory and the benefits of using NVMe-based tiering. Brandon expresses his interest in Project Peaberry, a memory tiering offloading card, and its potential use cases. He highlights the importance of his team in developing capacity data gathering and analytics solutions.

Takeaways:

• Memory tiering helps optimize memory usage and reduce costs by offloading cold memory to a non-active tier.
• Using NVMe-based tiering provides flexibility and scalability in memory allocation.
• Project Peaberry, a memory tiering offloading card, offers potential benefits in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Effective capacity planning requires robust data gathering and analytics solutions.
• Brandon Frost emphasizes the importance of his team in developing and implementing memory optimization strategies.

Links:

• VMware Explore session by Brandon and Arvind on memory tiering
• Memory Tiering blog on vmware.com

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas is a wrap. The team was present and will give you the opportunity to get an idea what the show was like. You will hear large number of guests covering some of the announcements, some specific aspects of the conference (like the Hands-on Labs), but also some of the vendors on the expo. The episode contains the following topics:

• The future of VMUG with Brad Tompkins
• A hands-on labs tour with Brandon Bazan and Joshua Schnee
• Spring One and Spring AI with DaShaun Carter
• VCF and AI at VMware Explore with Stephen Wagner
• EUC and 10zig with Kevin Greenway
• Google Cloud with Simon Long
• Microsoft AVS with Rene van den Bedem
• OVH Cloud with Pascal Jailon
• Pure & Stretched vVols with Cody Hosterman

If you like to watch one of the sessions mentioned, check out William Lam's Github page:

https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2024-session-urls/blob/master/vmware-explore-us.md

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.

Arvind Jagannath, a platform product manager at Broadcom, discusses memory tiering and its benefits for customers with Duncan. He explains that enterprise applications are becoming more memory-bound and require better performance. Memory tiering helps address the CPU to memory imbalance that many customers face, allowing for better CPU utilization and reducing costs. Arvind also mentions the challenges of expanding memory and the need for a solution like memory tiering. He introduces Project Capitola, which has evolved into NVMe-based memory tiering, and discusses the benefits and recommendations for using NVMe devices. Arvind also touches on the integration of memory tiering with advanced vSphere features like DRS and HA, and hints at future developments with Project Peaberry and CXL.

Takeaways

• Enterprise applications are becoming more memory-bound and require better performance.
• Memory tiering helps address the CPU to memory imbalance and improves CPU utilization.
• NVMe-based memory tiering provides additional memory capacity and reduces costs.
• Integration with advanced vSphere features like DRS and HA is being developed.
• Future developments include Project Peaberry and the use of CXL for intelligent devices.

Links

• Explore Session - Memory Tiering: Power Your Server Infrastructure With Memory Innovations [VCFB1198LV]
• Yellow-Bricks.com - Memory Tiering Blog
• SNIA Recording on Memory Tiering and CXL accelerators

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in this podcast are our own/guest(s), and not necessarily those of Broadcom or VMware by Broadcom.