VMware storage entails more than simply mapping a logical unit number (LUN) to a physical server. VMware’s vSphere enables system administrators to create multiple virtual servers on a single physical ...

Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores. For VMware environments, planning your storage ...

随着企业虚拟化的迅速推进和云计算等领域的需求，虚拟化系统和服务的领头供应商VMWare的旗舰产品 ：vSphere也大规模的普及，这年头如果不懂点vSphere的部署和管理真不敢说自己搞集成搞运维的。 而vSphere的核心基石ESX(i)操作系统的VMFS文件系统是vSphere数据存储的 ...

Rick Vanover covers three of the major changes coming in vSphere 5, including VMFS 5, the new sub-block algorithm allocation, and support for sizes up to 64 TB. VMware has announced vSphere 5. A ...

I'm still configuring my IBM NetApp N3300 device for use with my vSphere hosts. Some questions still remain: -What are the best practices regarding setting up fractional reserves on the LUNs? I have 4 ...

One of the new features available for vSphere is the ability to assign role-based permissions to datastores, including VMFS volumes. It is important to note that these permissions are managed ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

If VMware is of any interest to you, you’ve probably been consumed with the vSphere 5.0 licensing changes, both the ones announced during the product’s initial launch and those revealed later, after ...