frankdenneman

  Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

     



441 Stories by frankdenneman

Resource Pools and Sibling Rivalry

One of the most powerful constructs in the Software Defined Data Center is the resource pool. The resource pool allows you to abstract and...
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Virtually Speaking Podcast about Technical Writing

Last week Duncan and I were guests on the ever popular Virtually Speaking Podcast. In this show we discussed the difference in technical writing,...
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Resource Consumption of Encrypted vMotion

vSphere 6.5 introduced encrypted vMotion and encrypts vMotion traffic if the destination and source host are capable of supporting encrypted vMotion. If true, vMotion...
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New Fling: DRS Entitlement

I’m proud to announce the latest fling; DRS entitlement. This fling is built by the performance team and it provides insight to the demand...
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Stretched Clusters on VMware Cloud on AWS, a Really Big Thing

This week Emad published an excellent article about the stretched cluster functionality of VMware Cloud on AWS. To sum up, you can now deploy...
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Dying Home Lab – Feedback Welcome

The servers in my home lab are dying on a daily basis. After four years of active duty, I think they have the right...
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Dedicated Hardware in a Public Cloud World

One of the more persistent misconceptions is that the components of VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on AWS are virtualized...
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vBrownBag Techtalks VMworld Call for Papers now open

Although the selection process of the submitted VMworld 2018 sessions is still ongoing, vBrownbag announced their call for papers. As Duncan mentioned in his...
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The public Shaming of Resource Pool-as-a-Folder User

Yesterday there was some public shaming done of Antony Spiteri. He was outed that he was using vSphere resource pool as folders. Hey @FrankDenneman...
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Public Speaking Schedule

The VMUG season has started, and I have a few speaking sessions at various events. I thought it might be convenient to list the...
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