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NVIDIA Tesla P40 for Private AI in the Homelab: Specs, ESXi Passthrough and Benchmarks

Tesla P40 specs (24 GB GDDR5, 250 W, 10.5-inch dual slot, compute 6.1), cooling and ESXi passthrough setup, llama.cpp benchmarks, and CUDA 13 limits.

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DELL R610 or R710: How to Convert an H200A to H200I for Dedicated Slot Use

Convert a Dell H200A to an H200I so it fits the R610/R710 dedicated storage slot and frees a PCIe slot, e.g. for an NVIDIA Tesla P40.

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On-Demand session URLs for VMware Explore…

Hard to believe VMware Explore Barcelona just concluded a couple of days ago! The VMware Explore production team has already published a large majority of the breakout session…

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ESXi SR-IOV Explained, and Why Intel Integrated GPUs (iGPU) Don’t Work with It

How SR-IOV works on ESXi, requirements and limitations, how to enable it on a NIC, and why Intel's ESXi GPU SR-IOV driver supports only Flex 140/170.

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VMware K8s Networking – Technical Deep Dive to…

VMware K8s Networking – Technical Deep Dive to… Often, Kubernetes and cloud native applications are a strange world to traditional network and security teams. However, any legacy or…

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