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

Storage DRS and Storage vMotion bugs solved in vSphere 5.0 Update 2.

Today Update 2 for vSphere ESXI 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 were released. I would like to highlight two bugs that have been fixed...
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Multi-NIC vMotion – failover order configuration

After posting the article “designing your vMotion network” I quickly received the question which failover order configuration is better. Is it better to configure...
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Thin or thick disks? – it’s about management not performance

This is my contribution to the debate Zero or Thick disks – debunking the performance myth. The last couple of years all sorts of...
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vMotion Futures Survey

If you have a few spare minutes, please fill out the survey about vMotion futures. We are very interested in how you use vMotion...
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Storage vMotion and the vSphere web-client

The new web client of vSphere 5.1 is my weapon of choice when working in my lab. It contains a lot of “hidden” gems,...
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Designing your vMotion network

A well designed vMotion network will benefit the environment in many ways. Before vSphere 5, designing a vMotion network was relative easy, select the...
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SIOC on datastores backed by a single datapool

Duncan posted an article today in which he brings up the question: Should I use many small LUNs or a couple large LUNs for...
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Overlapping DRS VM-Host affinity rule in a vSphere Stretched Cluster

A question on the VMware community forum triggered me to validate DRS behavior of applying VM to Host group rules. The scenario describes a...
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Calculating the bandwidth usage and duration of a vMotion process?

Every once in a while I get the question if I have a calculator that can determine the lead-time and the bandwidth consumption of...
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How to create a "New Storage DRS recommendation generated" alarm

It is recommended to configure Storage DRS in manual mode when you are new to Storage DRS. This way you become familiar with the...
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