One of the new features available for vSphere is the ability to assign role-based permissions to datastores, including VMFS volumes. It is important to note that these permissions are managed ...

Virtualization needs shared storage for just about every advanced feature. In return, virtualization hypervisors have come up with some amazingly powerful features for optimizing storage. So far, ...

I have a Dell MD3220 SAN (not iSCSI) with dual storage controllers connected to two Dell R620, each with 2 SAS ports - cabled for redundant paths. On the SAN I have created the disk group, (2) 2TB ...

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 ...

VSphere enables administrators to manage virtualized servers and operating systems all from a single client. Most virtual machines are installed to a host via a CD, DVD or international organization ...

Today marks the official release of VMware’s vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there’s much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

(Mods - if this is better suited for a different forum, feel free to move, it is a bit of a grey area). Hopefully building up a new ESXi box for home this weekend. I have 2 small (40gb) SSD's that I ...

You might see Invalid credentials, delaying next attempt in VMware when the ESXi host, which is part of a vSphere environment managed by vCenter, loses its connection to vCenter or cannot authenticate ...