What is VMware Storage vMotion and How It Works
One of many hypnotic appeals to leveraging virtual infrastructure is the ability to move workloads around without any downtime. This is certainly true with the VMware vMotion operation that hooked…
Tag: datastore
Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files…
Managing Datastore Files in VMware vSphere 6.5
One of the basic, daily administration tasks for any VMware administrator is managing files in the vSphere environment. With the move to vSphere 6.5, how are file management tasks affected…
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at…
Four ways to upload files to VMware vSphere datastore
Uploading files whether it be ISO’s, VMX config files, or VMDKs is a necessary task for most VMware administrators in various situations. When looking to upload files to your VMware…
VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to…
How to Create VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5
With all of the new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap feature, you need to use a VMFS 6 formatted datastore.…
Lost access to volume due to connectivity issues
Recently, I ran into an issue with a host where performance would tank from the client side. Â VM consoles and RDP sessions would disconnect as well as the host would…
Can you Install VMware ESXi on 4kn Drives
The answer to the question posed in the post title is – yes you can INSTALL ESXi on 4kn drives. However as I tested recently, the problem you will run…