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

Virtually Speaking Podcast #67 Resource Management

Two weeks ago Pete Flecha (a.k.a. Pedro Arrow) and John Nicholson invited me to their always awesome podcast to talk about resource management. During...
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vSphere 6.5 DRS and Memory Balancing in Non-Overcommitted Clusters

DRS is over a decade old and is still going strong. DRS is aligned with the premise of virtualization, resource sharing and overcommitment of...
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Explainer on #Spectre & #Meltdown by Graham Sutherland

Sometimes you stumble across a brilliant Twitter thread, so good, that it should never be lost. Graham Sutherland (@gsuberland) helped the world in understanding...
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Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book

In June of this year, Niels and I published the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, and the community was buzzing. Twitter exploded, and...
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What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory Capacity of the Physical NUMA Node?

This week I had the pleasure to talk to a customer about NUMA use-cases and a very interesting config came up. They have a...
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A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family – Memory Subsystem

The Intel Xeon Scalable Family introduces a new platform (Purley). The most prominent change regarding system design is the memory subsystem. More Memory Bandwidth...
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A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family

Intel released the much-anticipated Skylake Server CPU this year. Moving away from the E5-2600-v moniker, Intel names the new iteration of its server CPU...
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VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview

Please note that this information can be outdated due to the ongoing changes of this cloud service. Please consult the https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/roadmap for recent information...
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Get your Free Book at VMworld

At VMworld, the presenters of the following sessions will be giving away free copies of the Host Deep Dive book to the audience. Saturday...
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Register now for VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Deep Dive Session

I noticed that our technical deep dive session on VMware Cloud on AWS was added to the content catalog of VMworld. In this session,...
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