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Intelligent Automation with VMware

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

Intelligent Automation with VMware

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Machine Learning Capabilities with vSphere 6.7

This book will brief you about how different VMware tools will help customers to reap the benefits of intelligent automatic detection and prediction. This offering will enable them to detect, visualize, and troubleshoot anomalies, future needs, and potential modern applications and infrastructure issues—all this without any additional skillset for statistical or algorithm expertise from the user's side. VMware provides customers unified visibility into the health and typical behavior of metrics across all services without user assistance, and therefore reduces troubleshooting time. These tools will also help in forecasting to understand future capacity needs and to maximize application and infrastructure efficiency cost-effectively.

This chapter briefs you on how to virtualize GPU in a vSphere environment by using different modes, creating profiles for specific groups of users, and information about different NVIDIA graphics cards and their usage. We will also learn about configuring NVIDIA GPU in vSphere for machine learning (ML)-based workloads with different use cases to achieve specific business objectives while reducing cost.

The topics that we we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • ML and VMware
  • Different modes of using GPUs
  • ML with NVIDIA GPUs