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AMD’s Server CPU market share raises to 8.9% in Q1 2021, biggest gain against Intel since 2006

As per the Mercury Research report, AMD server CPU market share reaches 8.9% in Q1 2021 and analysts predict that this growth trend will continue in the coming months. Last time, AMD saw it’s server CPU market share peak in 2006 with the success of its 64-bit Opteron processors. In 2006, AMD’s server CPU market … Read more

NVIDIA Grace – First data center CPU from NVIDIA

NVIDIA is building ARM-based processor code name ‘GRACE’ which targets the AI and HPC communities. After AWS’s Graviton processor, it seems ARM is making serious inroads into the data center and cloud segments. NVIDIA announced its first data center CPU, an Arm-based processor that will deliver 10x the performance of today’s fastest servers on the … Read more

ARM in the Data Center

AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 provides the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute instances, including many that are powered by latest-generation Intel and AMD processors. AWS Graviton processors add … Read more

Japan’s Fugaku Retains Title as World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Fujitsu Limited Tokyo, November 17, 2020 The supercomputer Fugaku, which is being developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited based on Arm® technology, has again taken the top spot on the major high-performance computer rankings, including the Top500 list, in all of the rankings posting much higher scores than the runners-up. The other rankings are … Read more

Network Mnemonics

The following is a list of networking Mnemonics that can be used as a method of remembering certain aspects of networking. 1.DHCP process: “DORA” – DHCP process of Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge 2. OSI Layers (from Layer 7 to 1): “All People Seem To Need Data Processing” –  application, presentation, session, transport, network, data-link, physical “Please Do Not Throw Salami Pizza Away” —  bottom-to-top (Layer 1 … Read more

vSphere 6.7 – How to assign a License Key to VCSA (vCenter Server)

Step#1 – Add the license file to vCenter Login to vCenter server using the web client From the Main menu, click on the Administration link From the Administration page, select the Licenses link under the Licensing option. Click on ‘Add New Licenses’ and enter or copy/paste a valid license key and then click on the … Read more

Could not connect to vmware directory service via ldap. verify vmware directory service is running on the appropriate system and is reachable from this host.

Problem: Deploying a brand new vCSA 6.7 appliance results in the following error during the “stage 2: Appliance setup is in progress” phase of the deployment. This problem is purely related to the DNS name ressolution issues. Solution: You must always use a local DNS server(s) which is up and running in your network. Don’t … Read more

How to configure a Cisco switch to act as the DHCP server

This tutorial explains how to configure the DHCP service on a Cisco switch. CONFIGURATION STEPS : Step 1 Enter into Global Configuration mode SW1>enable SW1#configure terminal Step 2 Create a range of excluded IP ranges from the subnet which you don’t want to allocate for end user devices SW1(config)#ip dhcp excluded-address [start address] [end address] … Read more