In order to install PowerCLI you need to have a supported version of .Net installed, a supported OS and a supported version of Powershell installed. You can read the release…
LUN masking can be used to block a hosts access to a storage device or to prevent an ESXi host from using a particular storage path. This can be useful…
VLANs use the 802.1Q standard to tag traffic as associated with a particular VLAN. There are three main ways of using VLANs with vSphere: Virtual guest tagging (VGT) – requires…
Profile Driven Storage is a feature that allows you to ‘describe’ storage capabilities such as capacity, performance, replication etc. This is basically ‘tagging’ storage/datastores with certain characteristics, either supplied by…
As with any other virtual machine resources, it is important to pay close attention to virtual machine storage requirements. Virtualisation brings a lot of benefits when it comes to storage…
If there’s one thing that’s apparent when supporting vSphere environments, its that it’s never good news when a datastore has ran out of space. This article will look at how…
When you attempt to mount a device that contains a VMFS datastore copy/storage snapshot, you are given the option to either mount the datastore using the existing signature or you…
Prepare storage for maintenance (mounting/un-mounting VMFS Datastores) When you un-mount a VMFS datastore, it remains intact but it can no longer be seen from the hosts on which you have…