- vSphere 5.5 (vCenter Server Appliance & 2 x ESXi hosts) Using the thick vSphere Client, I mount the LUN to one of the ESXi hosts and create one partition in the usual way (i.e. [Host] -> Storage -> ...

I'm designing a vSphere storage design to support a total of around 100 hosts and I'm having some issues settling on LUN sizing. With vSphere 5, the max is far greater than I should really configure ...

The launch of vSphere 5 and its new storage related features will set the precedent for a complete rethink on how a new datacenter’s storage infrastructure should be designed and deployed. vSphere 5’s ...

At the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in February, VMware announced vSphere 6.0. vSphere was an evolutionary release for VMware, with one major exception: It included Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), a ...

No one doubts that virtualization has made managing centralized storage environments far easier than managing an equivalent mass of physical SAN-attached servers. But as businesses spin up new VMs and ...

VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise is the definitive, real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing today’s leading virtual infrastructure platform in mission-critical environments. It ...

The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

Migrating from VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4 was a difficult journey for me. There were several issues with this migration, that I have ...

At the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in February, VMware announced vSphere 6.0. vSphere was an evolutionary release for VMware, with one major exception: It included Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), a ...