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 ...

The VMWare Cluster Locking File System, version 3 (VMFS-3) Is one of the core technologies used in VMWare ESX/vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure environments. Unfortunately, it's also a completely ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do you guys setup your datastores for VMWare: All virtual disks together all the time for each VM, or split up disks across datastores? We have about 200 servers running, and currently have the ...

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 ...