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Enterprise Computing: Thin Provisioning and The Cookie Monster!13 comments

Chris Evans wrote 2 weeks ago: The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varyin … more →

Tags: Enterprise computing, GestaltIT, Storage Virtualisation, Cookie Monster, File System, MFT, NTFS, Tech Field Day, Thick Provisioning

Changing the block size of the local VMFS during install..

mbraak wrote 2 weeks ago: Finally someone (PatrickD) found out a way to change the block size of the local VMFS during install … more →

Tags: VMware, vSphere, block size

VMFS- and Block Size is important for virtual RDM's

Kenneth van Ditmarsch wrote 3 weeks ago: A little post from me since I  got an error message while working with large RDM’s. While I tw … more →

Tags: RDM, VMware, VMware Design, vSphere, block size, virtual compatibility mode, VMFS. RDM

The Site is Starting to Come Together...

vmfan88 wrote 1 month ago: It’s amazing when you start working on something how it will actually form what you envisioned … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, VCP Study Guide, Section 3 – Configure ESX/ESXi Storage, iSCSI, lun masking, sanna's, Storage, vSphere, Configuration Maximums

VMware: Failed to get disk partition information in vSphere1 comment

afokkema wrote 4 months ago: Today I wanted to add a new iSCSI Lun to my vSphere Lab. I got the following error: I had this error … more →

Tags: VMware, VI Client, vSphere

Windows 2008 disk alignment4 comments

Frank Denneman wrote 6 months ago: Due to many performance studies about disk performance it is well known that disk alignment for both … more →

Tags: VMware, align, Alignment, Boundary, Cluster size, Diskpart, diskpart script, NTFS, Partition

Mythes rond VMFS

Bert Bouwhuis wrote 8 months ago: Chad Sakac stoort zich aan de verspreiding van Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt rond het gebruik van VMFS … more →

Tags: server virtualization, Storage Virtualization, LinkedIn, NFS, virtualization

VMFS Volume Management Whitepaper

afokkema wrote 8 months ago: VMware released a new document about about VMFS volume management. The guide explains the VMFS volum … more →

Tags: VMware, Whitepaper

VMFS Volume Management document1 comment

Frank Denneman wrote 8 months ago: VMware published an excellent document about VMFS volume management a few days ago. VMware® VMFS Vol … more →

Tags: VMware, ESX, Lun, Replication, SCSI.CompareLUNNumber, VMFS Volume Management

my first lefthand ISCSI VI architecture4 comments

Frank Denneman wrote 8 months ago: I’m currently reviewing a design of a new virtual infrastructure. The VI uses multiple 10GB links to … more →

Tags: VMware, Cluster, datastore, Design, ESX, Infrastructure, iSCSI, lefthand, Lun

VMware: Failed to get disk partition information1 comment

afokkema wrote 8 months ago: After creating a new IETD configuration at home, i wanted to add the new iSCSI LUN to my ESXi server … more →

Tags: VMware

Ye Olde Snapshot - by Erik Zandboer2 comments

erikzandboer wrote 9 months ago: A lot of people have had more or less unpleasant experiences with forgotten snapshots. You login in … more →

Tags: VMware, ESX, Converter, Snapshot, huge

Configure VMFS in VMWARE

bharathvn wrote 10 months ago: VMFS VMWare file system is a file system optimized for storing VM’s. A virtual disk stored on a VMFS … more →

Tags: VMware ESX

Linux: RM Files Using xargs. Another: Argument list too long1 comment

Kevin Goodman wrote 1 year ago: Here is another example of removing files from a Linux system when faced with error Argument list to … more →

Tags: VMware, Linux, RM, recursive, delete, grep, LinkedIn, WC, xargs

VMware: The debate over storage protocols

nashwj wrote 1 year ago: I’m all over the place this week.  Tonight I’m at a cool little coffee shop in Providenc … more →

Tags: Storage, VMware, ESX, iSCSI, NFS, fibre, Channel

What are Thin Disks,Thick Disks

techstarts wrote 1 year ago: Excellent explanation of various storage technologies, especially Thin disks from vmmba.  There … more →

Tags: Advance Concepts, Storage, VM Provisioning, VMware

choosing a blocksize when creating VMFS datastores

lievenvw wrote 1 year ago: When you create a VMFS datastore on your VMware ESX servers many administrators select the default 1 … more →

Tags: VMware

how to change the blocksize of a vmfs file system

lievenvw wrote 1 year ago: vmkfstools --createfs vmfs3 --blocksize 8M vmhba0:0:0:3 however this will destroy all data, so you m … more →

Tags: VMware

VMware's haat-liefde verhouding met storage leveranciers

Bert Bouwhuis wrote 1 year ago: SearchStorage.com besteedt een Special Report aan de frictie tussen leveranciers van servervirtualis … more →

Tags: server virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Symantec, NFS


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