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

Part 3 – Data path is not managed as a clustered resource

Welcome to part 3 of the Virtual Datacenter scaling problems with traditional shared storage series. Last week I published an article about the FAST...
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Virtual Datacenter scaling problems with traditional shared storage – part 2

Oversubscription Ratios The most common virtual datacenter architecture consists of a group of ESXi hosts connected via a network to a centralized storage array....
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Memory Deep Dive Summary

This is last part of the memory deep dive. As the total series count 7667 words, I thought it would be a good idea...
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Memory Deep Dive: NUMA and Data Locality

This is part 6 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while...
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Memory Deep Dive: DDR4 Memory

This is part 5 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while...
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Memory Deep Dive: Optimizing for Performance

This is part 4 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while...
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Memory Deep Dive: Memory Subsystem Bandwidth

This is part 3 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while...
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Memory Deep Dive: Memory Subsystem Organisation

This is part 2 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while...
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Memory Deep Dive Series

Processor speed and core counts are important factors when designing a new server platform. However with virtualization platforms, the memory subsystem can have equal...
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New TPS management capabilities

Recently VMware decided that it’s best to change Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) behavior. In KB 2080735 they state the following: Although VMware believes the...
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