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 ...

For VMware VI3 and vSphere environments, there is no clear guidance on how storage should be sized. We do have one firm piece of information, and that is the configuration maximums document. For both ...

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 ...

HOPKINTON, MASS, USA: EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced that its EMC(R) replication manager software now features new data protection functionality for ...

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 ...