Storage.
- May 14, 2019
VMFS Datastore Corruption: How It Happens and How to Recover
VMFS (VMware File System) is a clustered filesystem that lets multiple ESXi hosts access the same LUN simultaneously. It’s reliable, well-tested, and handles concurrent access through …
- July 31, 2018
vSAN for Small Business: Is the Complexity Worth It?
VMware vSAN entered the mainstream around 2016 as a hyperconverged storage option — using local drives in ESXi hosts as a shared storage pool, eliminating the need for a dedicated SAN or NAS. For …
- March 19, 2018
Pure Storage Integration with vSphere: Getting the Most from All-Flash
When I first deployed Pure Storage in a VMware environment around 2017, the experience was different from anything I’d done with traditional SAN arrays. The management interface is genuinely …
- December 5, 2017
EMC VNX with VMware ESXi: Multipath Configuration and What Goes Wrong
EMC storage arrays (VNX and VNXe in particular) were a common pairing with VMware in the 2015-2019 era for mid-market organizations. They’re capable arrays with good VMware integration, but the …
- August 24, 2015
XenServer iSCSI Storage Repositories: What the Documentation Misses
Connecting XenServer to iSCSI shared storage is more nuanced than the documentation implies. Most guides walk you through the happy path — discover the target, create the SR, done. They skip the …
- July 14, 2015
XenServer Resource Pools: Configuring Shared Storage for Live Migration
XenMotion — XenServer’s live migration capability — requires shared storage. If all your VMs live on local storage (the default after a fresh install), you can’t migrate them between …
- May 9, 2014
Exchange 2013 Storage: Disk Layout, Sizing, and What Goes Wrong
Exchange 2013 was designed to tolerate slower, cheaper storage better than any previous version. Microsoft optimized it heavily for JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) in large enterprise deployments. For …