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

WOW, voted number 2 of top virtualization blogs!

Voted number 2 of top virtualization blogs As many other IT-addicts, the first thing I do is pick up my phone to see what’s...
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There is a new fling in town: DRMdiagnose

This week the DRMdiagnose fling is published. Produced by the resource management team and just in case you are wondering, DRM stands for Distributed...
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Distribution of resources based on shares in a Resource pool environment

Unfortunately Resource pools seem to have a bad rep, pair them with the word shares and we might as well call death and destruction...
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Do you use vApps?

We’re interested in learning more about how you use vApps for workload provisioning today and how you envision it evolving in the future. If...
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Reserve all guest memory (all locked)

Some applications do not perform well when memory is reclaimed from the virtual machine. Most users set a virtual machine memory reservation to prevent...
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PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform will revolutionize virtual infrastructure ecosystem design

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend a tech preview of PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP). Today PernixData exited stealth...
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Voting for the 2013 top virtualization blogs – A year in review

When Eric Siebert opens up the voting for the top VMware & virtualization blogs you know another (blogging) year has passed. First of all...
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Implicit anti-affinity rules and DRS placement behavior

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about affinity rules and if DRS reviews the complete state of the cluster and affinity...
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HA Percentage based admission control from a resource management perspective – Part 1

Disclaimer: This article contains references to the words master and slave. I recognize these as exclusionary words. The words are used in this article...
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Have you signed up for the Benelux Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow yet?

In less than 3 weeks time, the Benelux Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow starts. Industry-recognized experts from both IBM and VMware share their vision and...
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