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My Picks for NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023

March 21, 2023
This week GTC Spring 2023 kicks off again. These are the sessions I look forward to next week. Please leave a comment if you want to share a must-see session. ... Read More...
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Discover what’s new in vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1

March 16, 2023
We (the Unexplored Territory team) work with the vSphere release team to get you the latest information about the new releases as quickly as possible. This wee... Read More...
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Simulating NUMA Nodes for Nested ESXi Virtual Appliances

March 2, 2023
To troubleshoot a particular NUMA client behavior in a heterogenous multi-cloud environment, I needed to set up an ESXi7.0 environment. Currently, my lab is ru... Read More...
7 min read

Sapphire Rapids Memory Configuration

February 28, 2023
The 4th generation of the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) was released early this year, and I've been trying to wrap my head around ... Read More...
4 min read

How to Create a Windows 11 Bootable USB on Mac OS Monterey

December 21, 2022
I need to install Windows 11 on a gaming PC, but I only have a MacBook in my house, as this is my primary machine for work. To make things worse, trying to do ... Read More...
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Unexplored Territory Ep 34 – William Lam Talks Home Labs – Christmas Special

December 21, 2022
It's the end of the year, and everybody is winding down from a hectic year, so we wanted to give you some light stuff to listen to in our last episode. But Wil... Read More...
4 min read

Unexplored Territory Podcast 32 – IT giving McLaren Racing the edge

November 28, 2022
Edward Green, Head of Commercial Technology at McLaren Racing, keynoted at the VMware Explore tech conference in Barcelona. I had the honor of sitting down wit... Read More...
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ML Session at CTEX VMware Explore

November 4, 2022
Next week during VMware Explore, VMware is also organizing the Customer Technical Exchange. I'm presenting the session "vSphere Infrastructure for Machine Lear... Read More...
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vSphere 8 CPU Topology for Large Memory Footprint VMs Exceeding NUMA Boundaries

November 3, 2022
By default, vSphere manages the vCPU configuration and vNUMA topology automatically. vSphere attempts to keep the VM within a NUMA node until the vCPU count of... Read More...
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Unexplored Territory Podcast EP30 – Project Keswick with Alan Renouf

October 31, 2022
While preparing the podcast, I knew this episode would be good. Edge technology immensely excites me, and the way the project team strays away from the proverb... Read More...
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About the Author

Frank Denneman is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware. Frank focuses on Machine Learning Infrastructure and on compute resource management such as DRS and NUMA. He is the author of multiple books, including “vSphere 6.5 Host Technical Deep Dive” and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series. He is the host of the podcast: “Unexplored Territory“.