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

Migrating VMs between DRS clusters in an elastic vDC

In the article “Migrating datastore clusters by changing storage profiles in a vCloud“ I closed with the remark that vCD is not providing an...
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3 common questions about DRS preferential VM-Host affinity rules

On a regular basis I receive questions about the behavior of DRS when dealing with preferential VM to Host affinity rules. The rules configured...
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Migrating datastore clusters by changing storage profiles in a vCloud

vCloud director 5.1 supports the use of both storage profiles and Storage DRS. One of the coolest features and unfortunately relatively unknown is the...
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VMworld 2013 – Call of Papers deadline ends today

Just a reminder here on submitting VMworld sessions. The deadline is coming up quickly. If you haven’t submitted yet, you have still some hours...
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vMotion over layer 3?

This question regularly pops up on twitter and the community forums. And yes it works but VMware does not support vMotion interfaces in different...
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Saving a Resource Pool Structure web client feature not suitable for vCD environments

Last week I published the article “Saving a Resource Pool Structure” describing the RP-tree backup and restore feature of vSphere 5.1 web client. Multiple...
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Saving a Resource Pool Structure

During a troubleshooting exercise of a problem with vCenter I needed to disable DRS to make sure DRS was not the culprit. However a...
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Elastic vDC and how to span a provider vDC across multiple DRS clusters

vCloud director 5.1 provides the ability to create elastic vDC which allows an organization vDC to consume resources from multiple DRS clusters. By having...
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Would you be interested in Storage-level reservations?

In todays world it’s quite common to virtualize higher priority / tier-1 applications and services. These applications and services are usually subject to service...
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Hello world! Again

During my holiday, frankdenneman.nl got some unwanted attention. I’m currently in the process of rebuilding the site. Stay tuned for new updates!
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