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Tag Archives: VMFS
The Truth About Storage Hot Add and Remove
VMware vSphere 4 offers multiple options for expanding virtual machine storage with zero downtime, including the ability to grow a running virtual disk. Hyper-V marketing literature makes a similar claim, but is limited to simply adding another virtual disk. Continue reading
Easy recovery from a full VMware ESX datastore
With VMware vSphere, ESX, and VMFS, running out of space on a datastore does not cause damage to virtual machines. It is easy to recover without even a guest OS reboot. Continue reading
Posted in Virtualizationism
Tagged PASS, PowerShell, storage, Storage VMotion, Technical, thin provisioning, video, VMFS, vSphere
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What would things be like without VMFS?
If you have been using VMware ESX, then you might be a little spoiled by VMFS, VMware’s clustered filesystem. I have a hunch that many of us just take it for granted: create large LUNs, add to multiple ESX servers, … Continue reading
Posted in Virtualizationism
Tagged ESX, Hyper-V, MSCS, quick migration, storage, VMFS, VMware HA
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