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

KB 2104983 explained: Default behavior of DRS has been changed to make the feature less aggressive

Yesterday a couple of tweets were in my timeline discussing DRS behavior mentioned in KB article 2104983. The article is terse at best, therefor...
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My wish for 2015 – better tooling to provide better insight

I’ve seen this image pop up quite a bit in my twitter timeline this week and it’s a very recognizable situation. Most of us...
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Interesting IT related documentaries

The holidays are upon us and for most its time to wind down. Maybe time for some nice though-provoking documentaries before the food-coma sets...
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Playing tonight: DRS and the IO controllers

Ever wondered why the band is always mentioned second, is the band replaceable? Is the sound of the instruments so ambiguous that you can...
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VCDX- You cannot abstract your way out of things indefinitely

The amount of abstraction in IT is amazing. Every level in the software and hardware stack attempts to abstract operations and details. And the...
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MS Word style formatting shortcut keys for Mac

Recently I started to spend a lot of time in MS word again, and as a stickler for details I dislike a mishmash of...
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99 cents Promo to celebrate a major milestone of the vSphere Clustering Deepdive series

This week Duncan was looking at the sales numbers of the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive series and he noticed that we hit a major...
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Database workload characteristics and their impact on storage architecture design – part 3 – Ancillary structures for tuning databases

Welcome to part 3 of the Database workload characteristics series. Databases are considered to be one of the biggest I/O consumers in the virtual...
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Database workload characteristics and their impact on storage architecture design – part 2 – Data pipelines

Welcome to part 2 of the Database workload characteristics series. Databases are considered to be one of the biggest I/O consumers in the virtual...
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Database workload characteristics and their impact on storage architecture design – part 1

Frequently PernixData FVP is used to accelerate databases. Databases are for many a black box solution. Sure we all know they consume resources like...
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