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

VCD and initial placement of virtual disks in a Storage DRS datastore cluster

Recently a couple of consultants brought some unexpected behavior of vCloud Director to my attention. If the provider vDC is connected to a datastore...
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Using Remote desktop connection on a Mac? Switch to CoRD

One of the benefits of working for VMware technical marketing, is that you have your own lab. Luckily my lab is hosted by an...
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Expandable reservation on resource pools, how does it work?

It seems that the expandable reservation setting of a resource pool appears to be shrouded in mystery. How does it work, what is it...
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vSphere Storage Area Network Traffic system network resource pool -NetIOC

After posting the Network I/O Control primer I received a couple of questions about the vSAN traffic system network resource pool, such as: What’s...
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How to enable SIOC stats only mode?

Today on twitter, David Chadwick, Cormac Hogan and I were discussing SIOC stats only mode. SIOC stats only mode gathers statistics to provide you...
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Error -1 in opening & reading the slot file error in storageRM.log (SIOC)

The problem Recently I noticed that my datastore cluster was not providing Latency statistics during initial placement. The datastore recommendation during initial placement displayed...
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Error -1 in opening & reading the slot file error in storageRM.log (SIOC)

The problem Recently I noticed that my datastore cluster was not providing Latency statistics during initial placement. The datastore recommendation during initial placement displayed...
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Why is vMotion using the management network instead of the vMotion network?

On the community forums, I’ve seen some questions about the use of the management network by vMotion operations. The two most common scenarios are...
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Please help VMware bring project NEE down to its (k)nees

Folks, We have been testing the HOL platform for a few weeks using automated scripts and thought it would be great if we could...
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Storage DRS Initial placement workflow

Last week I received the question how exactly Storage DRS picks a datastore. On a SDRS the initial placement of a vm is done...
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