Name: Amplify Performance and Lower Data Center Costs with an Intel and VMware Technology Refresh Modernization
Start: 2024-10-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2024-10-24T16:00:30.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Are you looking to deploy or upgrade proven, high-performing, AND cost-effective hardware solutions for your VMware vSphere, vSAN, Tanzu, etc. environments?  If so, you have come to the right place, our channel discusses common challenges and potential solutions. Is your company running business-critical apps on an older vSphere version?  Our Intel/VMware expert panel discusses the implications of lifecycle management for vSphere v6 and v7 upgrading to v8. Other webinars cover memory tiering, adding Tanzu management to your environment, and vSAN upgrades for modern workloads. Reach out to our experts on LinkedIn for further information and to suggest future webinar topics.

Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) is designed to isolate Trust Domain (TD) VMs from the hypervisor and other non-TD software on the host platform to enhance confidential computing from a broad range of software attacks. Federated Learning is a machine learning algorithm that allows a model to be trained across multiple decentralized nodes without explicitly exchanging local data samples. 

In this session, we describe the use case of running Federated Learning to train a global machine learning model collaboratively across a network of trust domains running on VMware® Cloud Foundation while keeping the sensitive data localized.

Confidential Computing, AI Why and How?

Looking to deploy AI models using your existing data center investments? VMware and Intel have collaborated to announce VMware Private AI with Intel. This partnership will unlock AI everywhere for all enterprises. VMware Private AI with Intel will help enterprises build and deploy private and secure AI models running on VMware Cloud Foundation and boost AI performance by harnessing Intel's AI software suite and 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with built-in accelerators. Learn more about this collaboration by joining this engaging panel discussion with Intel expert- Abhay Chitral and VMware experts- Deb Howard, Shobhit Bhutani, and Justin Murray.

Shobhit Bhutani, Principal Product Marketing Manager, VMware by Broadcom
Abhay Chitral, Enterprise AI Product Lead, Data Center & Cloud, Intel
Deb Howard, Global Alliance Marketing Director, VMware by Broadcom
Justin Murray. Technical Marketing Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

VMware Private AI with Intel: Unlocking AI Everywhere

In this webinar, VMware and Intel panelists discuss their perspectives on how to modernize vSAN infrastructures for next-generation workloads. Focusing on challenges managing real-world, production infrastructures and learning from past mistakes ensures future upgrading, scaling, and replacing will be more efficient and less error-prone.The panel shares vSAN history, "war stories", and identifies practical and forward-looking strategies while also providing insights into running AI workloads, utilizing available acceleration modalities, and deploying other next gen workloads. Focusing on practical approaches to maintaining existing purpose- built solutions on OSA while deploying new workloads on next gen processors and ESA, the panel translates years of real-world customer experiences into actionable guidance for current and future vSAN deployments.

Modernizing Your vSAN Infrastructure for Next-Gen Workloads

VMware and Intel collaboration demonstrates how tiered memory with Intel® OptaneTM persistent
memory (PMem) enables up to a 66% reduction in the number of servers while increasing memory per
server tenfold. VMware Tanzu is a popular container platform—and VMware itself runs its own
containerized applications on Tanzu. Like its customers that use Tanzu, VMware Platform Services (VPS)
faces data center challenges—tight IT budgets, memory-hungry modern workloads, and outdated
hardware. VMware recently collaborated with Intel to determine the viability of upgrading hardware to
consolidate servers and use tiered memory to provide Tanzu’s containerized workloads with more
memory than the existing legacy hardware could support.

Following best practices developed by Intel for right-sizing tiered memory systems, VMware data center
architects monitored real-world, production, containerized workloads running on Tanzu to understand
average memory and CPU utilization. The memory metrics gathered for the legacy server environment
indicated that VMware’s Tanzu deployment was a good fit for a tiered memory system with Intel Optane
persistent memory (PMem). In a tiered memory configuration, Intel Optane PMem serves as main
capacity memory and a small amount of 3,200 MT/s DRAM serves as a cache. Tiered memory enabled
VMware to replace 27 legacy blade servers with nine newer 1U servers equipped with 3rd Gen Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processors. As a result, per-server memory capacity increased from 384 GB to 4 TB,
while lowering memory costs by up to 33%.

In summary, VMware’s deployment of tiered memory for their production Tanzu environment proves
that Intel Optane PMem enables massive server consolidation—reducing the number of servers by as
much as 66%—and provides vast amounts of memory for VMware Tanzu containers at an affordable
$/GB.

VMware Platform Services deploying Tanzu with Intel Hardware

My company is running business-critical apps on an older vSphere version. Now What??? The expert panel, with representatives from VMware and Intel, moderated by Deb Howard, discusses the implications of the lifecycle for Sphere v6 and v7. What are the options for business-critical applications on v6 or v7? We will compare the features and benefits of v6, v7, and v8 from a memory management and TCO perspective. We will dive deeper into the performance and cost benefits when running v6, v7, or v8 with Intel Xeon processors, Intel Optane PMem persistence memory, and Intel Optane SSDs deployments.
What are the implications of waiting to upgrade? Is waiting for CXL-based memory solutions a viable path forward?

Critical apps on older vSphere? Now What?

Rapidly changing world dynamics and exponential data growth have increased the demand for IT services. During a period of unprecedented economic uncertainty, IT organizations are deploying more infrastructure but within limited budgets. Intel and VMware are addressing this IT paradox. Learn how architectural approaches like memory tiering can increase memory capacity and help reduce TCO. Hear how VMware and Intel have partnered to make infrastructure ownership and management more efficient with memory tiering and monitoring.

- Storage tiering has been in place for years, now do it with memory. 
- Increase memory capacity while reducing cost without sacrificing performance
- Maintain visibility using the VMware Memory Management and Remediation Tool (vMMR).

Speakers:
- Simon Todd, Technical Solution Specialist, Intel
- Arvind Jagannath, Cloud Platform Product Management, VMware
- Sudhir Balasubramanian, Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Lead, VMware

Join the Memory Tiering Revolution with VMware and Intel

With VMware vSphere customers now moving to a subscription model, customers on 1st or 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® processors can benefit tremendously when they refresh their servers and renew to a VMware sSphere Foundation subscription. This webinar explores the benefits of Intel HW consolidation when coupled with the VMware SW upgrade. Majority of customers will have a breakeven ROI in less than 6 months.

Amplify Performance and Lower Data Center Costs with an Intel and VMware Technology Refresh Modernization

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