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

How to setup Multi-NIC vMotion on a distributed vSwitch

This article provides you an overview of the steps required to setup a Multi-NIC vMotion configuration on an existing distributed Switch with the vSphere...
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10 guidelines for creating good looking diagrams

Frequently I receive the question which application I use to create my diagrams. I used to use Microsoft Visio but starting to use Omnigraffle...
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Designing your vMotion network – 3 reasons why I use a distributed switch for vMotion networks

If your environment is licensed with the enterprise plus license you can choose to use a standard vSwitch or use a distributed switch for...
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vMotion and EtherChannel, an overview of the load-balancing policies stack

After posting the article “Choose link aggregation over Multi-NIC vMotion” I received a couple of similar questions. Pierre-Louis left a comment that covers most...
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Designing your vMotion networking – Choose link aggregation over Multi-NIC vMotion?

The “Designing your vMotion network” series have lead me to have some interesting conversations. A recurring question is why not use Link Aggregation technologies...
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New technical paper: The CPU Scheduler in VMware vSphere 5.1

Today a new technical paper is available on vmware.com. Description The CPU scheduler is an essential component of vSphere 5.x. All workloads running in...
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Hide all Getting Started Pages in vSphere 5.1 webclient in 3 easy steps

I’m rebuilding my lab and after I installed a new vCenter server I was confronted with those Getting Started tabs again. That reminded me...
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Direct IP-storage and using NetIOC User-defined network resource pools for QoS

Some customers use iSCSI initiators inside the Guest OS to connect directly to a datastore on the array or using an NFS client inside...
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Storage DRS Cluster shows error "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to edit the settings...
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Storage DRS Cluster shows error "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to edit the settings...
29 sec read