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VM Service – Help Developers by Aligning Their Kubernetes Nodes to the Physical Infrastructure

May 3, 2021
The vSphere 7.0 U2a update released on April 27th introduces the new VM service and VM operator. Hidden away in what seems to be a trivial update is a collecti... Read More...
11 min read

vSphere with Tanzu vCenter Server Network Configuration Overview

November 6, 2020
I noticed quite a few network-related queries about the install of vSphere with Tanzu together with vCenter Server Networks (Distributed Switch and HA-Proxy). ... Read More...
8 min read

What’s Your Favorite Tech Novel?

July 30, 2020
Today I was discussing with Duncan some great books to read. Disconnecting fully from work is difficult for me, so typically, the books I read are tech-related... Read More...
4 min read

New whitepaper available on vSphere 7 DRS Load Balancing

July 22, 2020
vSphere 7 contains the new DRS algorithm that differs tremendously from the old one. The performance team has put the new algorithm through the test and have p... Read More...
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vSphere 7 DRS Scalable Shares Deep Dive

May 27, 2020
You are one tickbox away from completely overhauling the way you look at resource pools. Yes you can still use them as folders (sigh), but with the newly intro... Read More...
20 min read

vSphere 7 vMotion with Attached Remote Device

May 12, 2020
A lot of cool new features fly under the radar during a major release announcement. Even the new DRS algorithm didn't get much air time. One thing that I disco... Read More...
2 min read

DRS Migration Threshold in vSphere 7

May 8, 2020
DRS in vSphere 7 is equipped with a new algorithm. The old algorithm measured the load of each host in the cluster and tried to keep the difference in workload... Read More...
8 min read

vSphere Supervisor Namespace

April 1, 2020
vSphere 7 with Kubernetes enables the vSphere cluster to run and manage containers as native constructs (vSphere Pods). The previous two articles in this serie... Read More...
19 min read

Scheduling vSphere Pods

March 20, 2020
The previous article "Initial Placement of a vSphere Pod," covered the internal construction of a vSphere Pod to show that it is a combination of a tailor-made... Read More...
20 min read

Deep Learning Technology Stack Overview for the vAdmin – Part 1

March 12, 2020
Introduction We are amid the AI "gold rush." More organizations are looking to incorporate any form of machine learning (ML) or deep learning in their servi... Read More...
13 min read
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About the Author

Frank Denneman is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware. Frank focuses on Machine Learning Infrastructure and on compute resource management such as DRS and NUMA. He is the author of multiple books, including “vSphere 6.5 Host Technical Deep Dive” and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series. He is the host of the podcast: “Unexplored Territory“.