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News Embattled Broadcom Quick to Deny VMware Cloud Leaving AWS The CEO of Broadcom, which has been under heavy criticism of it handling of VMware products since acquiring that company, was quick to deny reports that VMware was leaving the AWS cloud. “Unfortunately, there have been false reports that VMware Cloud on AWS may be … Read more
In-Depth Baseline Performance Testing the SimplyNUC Moonstone Mini-PC In this series of articles, I will look at running VMware Workstation on a high-powered, extremely small PC. In my last article, I discussed VMware Workstation and introduced the system on which I will run it on — a SimplyNUC Moonstone CBM3r9MS. This is from a family … Read more
In-Depth Performance of VMware Workstation 17 VMs on a SimplyNUC Mini-PC In this series of articles, I looked at SimplyNUC’s latest AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone. I found that it was a very powerful and well-built 4-inch x 4-inch PC with outstanding performance capabilities. I also looked at VMware Workstation 17 and some of its capabilities. … Read more
In-Depth Installing and Running VMware Workstation 17 on a Mini-PC I looked at the SimplyNUC Ryzen 9-7940HS processor mini-PC in a previous article and found its eight-core/16-thread Ryzen 9-7940HS processor very performant. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. If you are coming into this series of articles … Read more
In-Depth Running VMware Workstation on a Monster Mini-PC SimplyNUC recently released its most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one! Spoiler alert: This thing is a beast in a very small package. [Click on image for larger view.] My job as a technical marketing engineer at … Read more
In-Depth VMware Explore 2023 Europe: A Day-by-Day Recap VMware Explore Europe 2023 was held Nov. 7-9 in Barcelona at the Fira Gran Via Conference Centre, which I fortunately attended as an employee and presenter of ControlUp. Although no official head count was provided, most people that I talked to thought that the event drew around … Read more
News VMware, Intel Team Up to ‘Enable Private AI Everywhere’ VMware announced a collaboration with Intel to make AI more accessible and private across various environments like datacenters, public clouds and edge environments. The two companies will deliver a validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing VMware and Intel infrastructure and … Read more
In-Depth Why You Need to Attend VMware Explore Europe 2023 I attended VMware Explore in Las Vegas this year, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from it as the Covid pandemic was still on everyone’s mind, VMware is going through a transitional period as its buyout by Broadcom moves along, and the IT … Read more
How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more