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 ...

VMware has added three new white papers to the resource list that covers VMFS management, virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server, and learning more about VMware View Composer Whether you’re just starting ...

Today we had a discussion with a storage admin who is advocating for NFS. This is for an environment of about 3000 VMs running on UCS with primarily VMFS storage. Neither is better. If you have a ...

In a prior post, I mentioned that vStorage VMFS is one of my favorite elements of a VMware-based virtualization solution. With vSphere, the good news is that no ...

Like many other administrators, I started my virtualization experience with VMware products. In server consolidation, one technology that caught my interest early is the VMware vStorage Virtual ...

There’s no denying server virtualisation has been a highly successful technology that has transformed the way applications are deployed in the datacentre. What previously took weeks and months can now ...

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 ...