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

vMotion bug fixed in vCenter server 5.1.0a

Looking for the “Designing your vMotion network“? Please follow the link. Last week VMware vCenter Server™ 5.1.0a was released which contains a bugfix for...
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vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS load balancing and SIOC threshold enhancements

Lately I have been receiving questions on best practices and considerations for aligning the Storage DRS latency and Storage IO Control (SIOC) latency, how...
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Storage DRS and alternative swap file locations

By default a virtual machine swap file is stored in the working directory of the virtual machine. However, it is possible to configure the...
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Want to have a vSphere 5.1 clustering deepdive book for free?

Want to have a vSphere 5.1 clustering deepdive book for free? CloudPhysics are giving away some vSphere 5.1 clustering deepdive books, do the following...
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HA admission control is not a capacity management tool.

I receive a lot of questions on why HA doesn’t work when virtual machines are not configured with VM-level reservations. If no VM-level reservations...
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Partially connected datastore clusters – where can I find the warnings and how to solve it via the web client?

During my Storage DRS presentation at VMworld I talked about datastore cluster architecture and covered the impact of partially connected datastore clusters. In short...
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vSphere 5.1 DRS advanced option LimitVMsPerESXHost

During the Resource Management Group Discussion here in VMworld Barcelona a customer asked me about limiting the number of VMs per Host. vSphere 5.1...
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From the archives – An old Isometric diagram

While searching for a diagram I stumbled upon an old diagram I made in 2007. I think this diagram started my whole obsession with...
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Cloudphysics VM Reservation & Limits card – a closer look

The VM Reservation and Limits card was released yesterday. CloudPhysics decided to create this card based on the popularity of this topic in the...
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Cloudphysics VM Reservation & Limits card – a closer look

The VM Reservation and Limits card was released yesterday. CloudPhysics decided to create this card based on the popularity of this topic in the...
1 min read