frankdenneman

  Frank Denneman is the Machine Learning Chief Technologist at VMware. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

     



440 Stories by frankdenneman

Scheduling vSphere Pods

The previous article “Initial Placement of a vSphere Pod,” covered the internal construction of a vSphere Pod to show that it is a combination...
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Deep Learning Technology Stack Overview for the vAdmin – Part 1

Introduction We are amid the AI “gold rush.” More organizations are looking to incorporate any form of machine learning (ML) or deep learning in...
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Initial Placement of a vSphere Pod

Project Pacific transforms vSphere into a unified application platform. This new platform runs both virtual machine and Linux containers as native workload constructs. Just...
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Multi-GPU and Distributed Deep Learning

More enterprises are incorporating machine learning (ML) into their operations, products, and services. Similar to other workloads, a hybrid-cloud model strategy is used for...
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Machine Learning Workload and GPGPU NUMA Node Locality

In the previous article “PCIe Device NUMA Node Locality” I covered the physical connection between the processor and the PCIe device briefly touched upon...
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PCIe Device NUMA Node Locality

During this Christmas break, I wanted to learn PowerCLI properly. As I’m researching the use-cases of new hardware types and workloads in the data...
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vSphere 6.5+ DRS Pairwise Balancing

Or maybe I should have called this blog post, “I’m seeing an excessive number of DRS initiated vMotions on my newly upgraded 6.5 environment”. Recently I...
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AMD EPYC Naples vs Rome and vSphere CPU Scheduler Updates

Recently AMD announced the 2nd generation of the AMD EPYC CPU architecture, the EPYC 7002 series. Most refer to the new CPU architecture using its...
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60 Minutes of NUMA VMworld Session Commands

Verify Distribution of Memory Modules with PowerCLI Get-CimInstance -CimSession $Session CIM_PhysicalMemory | select BankLabel, Description, @{n=‘Capacity in GB';e={$_.Capacity/1GB}} PowerCLI Script to Detect Node Interleaving...
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5 Things to Know About Project Pacific

During the keynote of the first day of VMworld 2019, Pat unveiled Project Pacific. In short, project Pacific transforms vSphere into a unified application...
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