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 ...

So, vSphere Storage DRS is suppose to require Enterprise Plus licenses, but we only have Enterprise and have no problems creating datastore clusters and enabling Storage DRS on them. I am beginning to ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

Today marks the official release of VMware’s vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there’s much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

I have a Dell MD3220 SAN (not iSCSI) with dual storage controllers connected to two Dell R620, each with 2 SAS ports - cabled for redundant paths. On the SAN I have created the disk group, (2) 2TB ...