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Dedicated Hardware in a Public Cloud World

One of the more persistent misconceptions is that the components of VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on...
frankdenneman
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vBrownBag Techtalks VMworld Call for Papers now open

Although the selection process of the submitted VMworld 2018 sessions is still ongoing, vBrownbag announced their call for papers. As Duncan...
frankdenneman
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The public Shaming of Resource Pool-as-a-Folder User

Yesterday there was some public shaming done of Antony Spiteri. He was outed that he was using vSphere resource pool as...
frankdenneman
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Public Speaking Schedule

The VMUG season has started, and I have a few speaking sessions at various events. I thought it might be convenient...
frankdenneman
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Virtually Speaking Podcast #67 Resource Management

Two weeks ago Pete Flecha (a.k.a. Pedro Arrow) and John Nicholson invited me to their always awesome podcast to talk about...
frankdenneman
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Explainer on #Spectre & #Meltdown by Graham Sutherland

Sometimes you stumble across a brilliant Twitter thread, so good, that it should never be lost. Graham Sutherland (@gsuberland) helped the...
frankdenneman
4 min read

Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book

In June of this year, Niels and I published the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, and the community was buzzing....
frankdenneman
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What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory Capacity of the Physical NUMA Node?

This week I had the pleasure to talk to a customer about NUMA use-cases and a very interesting config came up....
frankdenneman
1 min read

A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family – Memory Subsystem

The Intel Xeon Scalable Family introduces a new platform (Purley). The most prominent change regarding system design is the memory subsystem....
frankdenneman
4 min read

A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family

Intel released the much-anticipated Skylake Server CPU this year. Moving away from the E5-2600-v moniker, Intel names the new iteration of...
frankdenneman
3 min read