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

Help my DRS cluster is not load balancing!

Unfortunately I still see this cry for help appearing on the VMTN forums and on twitter. And they usually are accompanied by screenshots like...
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Consumer grade SSD versus Enterprise grade SSD, which one to pick?

Should I use consumer grade SSD drives or should I use enterprise grade SSD drives? This a very popular question and I receive it...
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Who to vote for?

This week Eric Siebert opened up the 2014 edition of top virtualization blog contest. For the industry this is one of the highlights and...
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VCDX Defence: Are you planning to use a fictitious design?

This week the following tweet caught my eye: “@wonder_nerd Fictitious designs in a #VCDX defense have a failure rate of 90%. #VMwarePEX” < interesting...
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Installing Exchange Jetstress without full installation media.

I believe in testing environments with applications that will be used in the infrastructure itself. Pure synthetic workloads, such as IOmeter, are useful to...
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vSphere 5.5 vCenter server inventory 0

After logging into my brand spanking new vCenter 5.5 server I was treated with a vCenter server inventory count of 0. Interesting to say...
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VCDX defend clinic: Choosing between Multi-NIC vMotion and LBT

A new round of VCDX defenses will kickoff soon and I want to wish everyone that participates in the panel session good luck. Usually...
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My lab and the birth of the portable Ikea lack 19” datacenter rack

Currently, topics about labs are hot, and when meeting people at the VMUGs or other tech conferences, I get asked a lot about my...
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Send F11 key to nested ESXi on Mac

I only use Mac at home, most of the time it’s great sometimes it’s not. For example when installing or configuring your remote lab....
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vCPU configuration. Performance impact between virtual sockets and virtual cores?

A question that I frequently receive is if there is a difference in virtual machine performance if the virtual machine is created with multiple...
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