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

2 days left to vote

Eric Siebert owner of vSphere-land.com started the second round of the bi-annual top 25 VMware virtualization blogs voting. The last voting was back in...
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ESX 4.1 NUMA Scheduling

VMware has made some changes to the CPU scheduler in ESX 4.1; one of the changes is the support for Wide virtual machines. A...
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vCloud Director Architecture

A vCloud infrastructure consists of several components. Many of you have deployed, managed, installed or designed vSphere environments. The vCloud Director architecture introduces a...
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DRS 4.1 Adaptive MaxMovesPerHost

Another reason to upgrade to vSphere 4.1 is the DRS adaptive MaxMovesPerHost parameter. The MaxMovesPerHost setting determines the maximum amount of migrations per host...
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vSphere 4.1 – HA and DRS deepdive book

This is a complete repost of the article written by Duncan, as all publications about this book must be checked by VMware Legal, he...
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VCDX tip: The application form

Last week I reviewed some recently submitted designs and it appears that the requirements stated in the application form are too ambiguous. During this...
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DRS-FT integration

Another new feature of vSphere 4.1 is the DRS-Fault Tolerance integration. vSphere 4.1 allows DRS not only to perform initial placement of the Fault...
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Disable DRS and VM-Host rules

vSphere 4.1 introduces DRS VM-Host Affinity rules and offer two types of rules, mandatory (must run on /must not run on) and preferential (should...
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Load Based Teaming

In vSphere 4.1 a new network Load Based Teaming (LBT) algorithm is available on the distributed virtual switch dvPort groups. The option “Route based...
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DPM scheduled tasks

vSphere 4.1 introduces a lot of new features and enhancements of the existing features, one of the hidden gems I believe is the DPM...
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