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 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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vSphere 5.1 Clustering deepdive Cyber Monday deal

We are long time fascinated by the whole Black Friday and Cyber Monday craze in the USA. Unfortunately we do not celebrate Thanksgiving in...
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(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A – part 2

After writing the article “(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A” I received a lot of questions about the destination of the swapped pages and...
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(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A – part 2

After writing the article “(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A” I received a lot of questions about the destination of the swapped pages and...
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(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A

Lately I have received a couple of questions about Swap file placement. As I mentioned in the article “Storage DRS and alternative swap file...
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(Alternative) VM swap file locations Q&A

Lately I have received a couple of questions about Swap file placement. As I mentioned in the article “Storage DRS and alternative swap file...
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VMware feature request

During presentations I always stress to submit a feature request if you have an idea how to enhance the product or if you feel...
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VAAI hw offload and Storage vMotion between two Storage Arrays

Recently I received a question about migrating virtual machines with Storage vMotion between two Storage Arrays. More specifically if VAAI is leveraged by Storage...
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vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS Multi-VM provisioning improvement

When a virtual machine is provisioned to the datastore cluster, Storage DRS algorithm runs to determine the best placement of the virtual machine. The...
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Add DRS cluster to existing Storage DRS Datastore Cluster?

Lately I have seen the following question popping up at multiple places: “How can I add hosts of a DRS cluster to a Storage...
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