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VMware Private AI Foundation – Privacy and Security Best Practices white paper

I’m excited to announce the release of my latest white paper, “VMware Private AI Foundation – Privacy and Security Best Practices.”...
frankdenneman
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Gen AI Sessions at Explore Barcelona 2023

I’m looking forward to next week’s VMware Explore conference in Barcelona. It’s going to be a busy week. Hopefully, I will...
frankdenneman
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Sapphire Rapids Memory Configuration

The 4th generation of the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) was released early this year, and I’ve been trying...
frankdenneman
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vSphere 8 CPU Topology for Large Memory Footprint VMs Exceeding NUMA Boundaries

By default, vSphere manages the vCPU configuration and vNUMA topology automatically. vSphere attempts to keep the VM within a NUMA node...
frankdenneman
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CPU pinning is not an exclusive right to a CPU core!

Katarina tweeted a very expressive tweet about her love/hate (mostly hate) relation with CPU pinning, and lately I have been in...
frankdenneman
1 min read

vSphere with Tanzu vCenter Server Network Configuration Overview

I noticed quite a few network-related queries about the install of vSphere with Tanzu together with vCenter Server Networks (Distributed Switch...
frankdenneman
2 min read

What’s Your Favorite Tech Novel?

Today I was discussing with Duncan some great books to read. Disconnecting fully from work is difficult for me, so typically,...
frankdenneman
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New whitepaper available on vSphere 7 DRS Load Balancing

vSphere 7 contains the new DRS algorithm that differs tremendously from the old one. The performance team has put the new...
frankdenneman
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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...
frankdenneman
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Allen, McKeown, and Kondo

The title is a reference to one of the most interesting books I have ever read, Escher, Godel, and Bach. Someone...
frankdenneman
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