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

VMworld Europe Sessions

At VMworld Europe I will participate in Meet the Expert sessions, Group discussions and three breakout sessions. Here’s an overview of my public schedule....
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How to attach VM storage profiles to a virtual machine using the web client

Virtual Machine Storage Profiles are used to identify the storage capabilities necessary in order to properly run the application within the virtual machine. VM...
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How to create a datastore cluster using the new web client.

vSphere 5.1 main user interface is provided by the web client, during beta testing I spend some time to get accustomed to the new...
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Where is my new vMotion functionality?

Just a reminder as I received a lot of questions and comments about this: The new vMotion functionality – migrating virtual machines between host...
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vSphere 5.1 vMotion Deep Dive

vSphere 5.1 vMotion enables a virtual machine to change its datastore and host simultaneously, even if the two hosts don’t have any shared storage...
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Storage DRS datastore cluster default affinity rule

In vSphere 5.1 you can configure the default (anti) affinity rule of the datastore cluster via the user interface. Please note that this feature...
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vSphere 5.1 storage vMotion parallel disk migrations

Where previous versions of vSphere copied disks serially, vSphere 5.1 allows up to 4 parallel disk copies per Storage vMotion operation When you migrate...
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Storage DRS datastore correlation detector

One of the cool new features of Storage DRS in vSphere 5.1 is the datastore correlation detector used by the SIOC injector. Storage arrays...
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vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive available

Duncan and I released the vSphere 5.1 Clustering deepdive book this week. The book contains the new features of the vSphere 5.1 suite. We...
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CloudPhysics in a nutshell

Disclaimer: I’m a technical advisor for CloudPhysics. I’m very happy to see CloudPhysics coming out of stealth mode this week and making their beta...
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