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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it possible under ISCSI to share a datastore volume between mutiple ESXi Hosts? I have many ISO files on an ISCSI SAN volume that I would like to access from mutiple ESXi Hosts rather than copying ...

I've read all the documentation I can find and Google searched all day but I am still very confused. I've done VMFS datastores before without a problem but I am really scratching my head on how to add ...