Tag: NGC
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Air-Gapped Deployment, Lifecycle and CVE Patching for the NVIDIA Stack (NVIDIA AI Series, Part 15)
Running NVIDIA AI Enterprise in an air-gapped environment requires mirroring nvcr.io containers, Helm charts, and model weights before you cut the wire. Here is the branch selection, driver patch cadence, and CVE triage workflow that keeps regulated deployments defensible.
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NGC Catalog: Containers, Models, Helm Charts and How to Consume Them (NVIDIA AI Series, Part 14)
The NGC catalog is your upstream source for NVIDIA GPU-optimized containers, pretrained models, and Helm charts. Here is how the nvcr.io registry, org/team/API-key model, and NVAIE entitlement actually work, with a full operational pull-and-deploy walkthrough.
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NVIDIA AI Enterprise Explained: What’s in the Suite, How It’s Licensed, and Whether It’s Worth It
A practitioner’s breakdown of what NVIDIA AI Enterprise actually bundles, how its per-GPU licensing lands on VMware vSphere, and when the subscription earns its keep versus when you can skip it.
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Deep Learning VMs in VMware Private AI Foundation: The Data Scientist Workbench (Private AI Series, Part 10)
What a Deep Learning VM in VMware Private AI Foundation actually is, how the image is built, the first-boot steps that quietly break deployments, and when to move off it to a VKS cluster.
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VMware Cloud Foundation
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AI & Cloud-Native Platform
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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