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

Improve public speaking by reading a book?

Although it sounds like an oxymoron I do have the feeling that books about this topic can help you become a better public speaker,...
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Virtual machines versus Containers who will win?

Ah round X in the battle between who will win, which technology will prevail and when will the displacement of technology happen. Can we...
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Disable vMotion for a single VM

This question pops up regularly on the VMTN forums and reddit. It’s a viable question but the admins who request this feature usually don’t...
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Platform 9 – transform your virtual infrastructure into a private cloud within seconds

Recently I had the joy of reconnecting with some of my old VMware colleagues to learn that their new startup was coming out of...
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Life in the Data Center – a story of love, betrayal and virtualization

I’m excited to announce the first ever “collective novel”, in which members of the virtualization community collaborated to create a book with intrigue, mystery,...
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Let Cloudphysics help rid yourself of Heartbleed

Unfortunately the Open SSL Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0224) is present in the ESXi and vCenter 5.5 builds. VMware responded by incorporating a patch to solve...
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Homelab – Power-on your Supermicro system by SSH'ing into IPMI

Just a short article, recently I discovered you can access Supermicro IPMI via SSH and power on the system by using the command: start...
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Which HA admission control policy do you use?

Yesterday Duncan and I where discussing the 5.5 update of the vSphere clustering deepdive book and we were debating which HA admission control policy...
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Gotcha – Disable reserve all guest memory setting does not remove the reservation

A while ago I wrote about the nice feature Reserve all guest memory available in vSphere 5.1 and 5.5. The feature automatically adjusts the...
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vSphere 5.5 Home lab

For a while I’ve been using three Dell R610 servers in my home lab. The machines specs are quite decent, each server equipped with...
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