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 ...

VMFS3 VM Name: ServerName ServerName is a running VM, but I have verified the locations of the VMX and VMDK files are on a different datastore (I also vMotioned it to another datastore to be sure) ...

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Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

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 ...

Virtualization costs are rising while cyber risks are surging. See how organizations can successfully move VMs from traditional virtualization platforms to Kubernetes while controlling costs, ...

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 ...

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 ...