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 ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

While working a vSphere 4.1 and 5.1 Infrastructure to vSphere vBlock 5.1 migration project, I needed to reclaim as much legacy storage as possible back to our SAN team. Completing the storage ...

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After previously writing about installing ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi, Tom Fenton walks through the process of using a USB flash drive as a local datastore on the Pi. In my previous articles on ESXi ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...

There’s no denying server virtualisation has been a highly successful technology that has transformed the way applications are deployed in the datacentre. What previously took weeks and months can now ...