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 ...

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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) ...

I was recently in a discussion with a group of vSphere administrators about a particular lab environment, and we were upset that some of the Tier-1 storage was being used for workloads that weren't ...

With the release of vSphere 6.0 last month, VMware has brought to market one of the most talked-about – and arguably, hyped – storage features in its portfolio, Virtual Volumes (VVOLs). VVOLs allow ...