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

VCDX tip: VMtools increases TimeOutValue

This is just a small heads-up post for all the VCDX candidates. Almost every VCDX application I read mentions the fact that they needed...
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Removing orphaned Nexus DVS

During the test of the Cisco Nexus 1000V the customer deleted the VSM first without removing the DVS using commands from within the VSM,...
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DRS Resource Distribution Chart

A customer of mine wanted more information about the new DRS Resource Distribution Chart in vCenter 4.0, so I thought after writing the text...
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Resource pools and avoiding HA slot sizing

Article about workaround by setting memory reservation on dedicated resource pool for VM to avoid large HA slot sizing and lower consolidation ratio.
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Impact of host local VM swap on HA and DRS

On a regular basis I come across NFS based environments where the decision is made to store the virtual machine swap files on local...
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VCDX number 029

Monday 8th of February I was scheduled to participate in the defend session of the VCDX panel at Las Vegas. For people not familiar...
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Sizing VMs and NUMA nodes

Note: This article describes NUMA scheduling on ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 platform, vSphere 4.1 introduced wide NUMA nodes, information about this can be...
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Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers

This week Eric Siebert processed all the votes and published this year’s Top 25 VMware/Virtualization Blogger list. Over 700 people voted, each casting 10...
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Voting closes at Friday!

Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com started a new election of the best 20 bloggers in the VMware and Virtualization scene. Because even more top blogs...
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Wrap-up 2009

Daniel Easons blog post inspired me to write a wrap-up of 2009 myself. Beside the career move described in the previous post, 2009 was...
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