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

VMware vSphere Storage DRS Interoperability technical paper available

Today my second white paper, VMware vSphere Storage DRS Interoperability, is made available for download at the Technical Resource Center at VMware.com. This white...
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VMworld Session proposals

Here is just a quick overview of the sessions I submitted for VMworld events in San Francisco and Barcelona. I’ve submitted three sessions in...
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Blog post on blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/

As part of the Technical Marketing team of VMware focusing on the vSphere platform I contribute to the vSphere blog on VMware.com. From this...
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VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study Technical Paper available

As of today the VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study Technical Paper is available at http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10284 VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (VMware vMSC)...
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DRS clusters and allocating reserved memory

As mentioned in the admission control family, multiple features on multiple layers check to there is enough unused reserved memory available. This article is...
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Admission control and vCloud Allocation Pool model

The previous article outlines the multiple admission controls active in a virtual infrastructure. One that always interested me in particular is the admission control...
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The Admission Control Family

It’s funny how sometimes something, in this case a vSphere feature, becomes a “trending topic” on any given day or week. Yesterday I was...
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Mixing Resource Pools and Virtual Machines on the same hierarchical level

One of most frequent questions I receive is about mixing resource pools and virtual machines at the same hierarchical level. In almost all of...
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Storage DRS load balance frequency

Storage DRS load balancing frequency differs from DRS load balance frequency, where DRS runs every 5 minutes to balance CPU and memory resources, Storage...
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Whiteboard desk

As I’m an avid fan of “post your desk topics \ workspace ” forum threads, I thought it might be nice to publish a...
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