There are a number of places you can view how your disk space is being used when working with vSphere. The first port of call is the Storage Views pane…

This post is intended to cover the VCAP-DCA objective around applying VMware storage best practices. As this is quite a broad topic, I’ll just be covering some general points here.…

VAAI stands for vStorage APIs for Array Integration. It provides Hardware Acceleration functionality, enabling your ESXi hosts to offload certain virtual machines and storage operations to the storage array. When…

As with many vSphere tasks, there are multiple ways in which you can upgrade datastores from VMFS3 to VMFS5. Before looking at how to upgrade a datastore, there are a…

I’ve recently written this post which discusses RAID levels and how to calculate how many disks you need in your RAID sets to provide the required performance levels for  your…

This post is intended to cover the VCAP-DCA objective of understanding the various RAID levels that you will come across when working with vSphere storage. There are already some great…

Following this post on installing and configuring the VMware syslog collector, this post will be about how to configure ESXi hosts to use it. One of the ways to configure…

This post is aimed at covering the VCAP-DCA objectives relating to installing the ESXi Dump Collector and the Syslog Collector. I’ve written about installing and testing the ESXi Dump Collector…

Certificate checking is used by ESXi hosts to check each others identities, which helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on the host. The default, self signed, certificates generated by an ESXi host…