While you might not need a live storage migration tool like VMware’s Storage vMotion all of the time, it’s worth every cent when put in use. This article, “ Avoid downtime with Storage ...

VMware, which makes software designed to make server computers more efficient, says its code is compatible with data storage gear from several companies. On Monday, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based ...

Is it possible to fire up 2 physical hosts connected to an iSCSI SAN with vSphere now, and next year add NFS storage at DR site with servers connected to it and use vMotion Storage to use it as a ...

Configuring VMotion in vSphere One of the most important parts of VMware's vSphere offering is the collective migration technology, VMotion. In the current landscape, this includes migrating VMs from ...

The highlights include software to pool server-based storage into a shared resource and a tool to bring external storage into the age of VMs. Across both, VMware is introducing policy-based ...

"We" have built a 2 host esxi cluster with a fiber attached san. Each host has 1 hba. San has a generous amount of disk. 4 VMs, one of which is a sql box with 8 mapped luns. RDM was used to map ...

VMware just announced that VMware Host Client 1.0 is shipping with vSphere 6.0 Update 2 (U2), which was released last week. Host Client allows an HTML 5 Web browser to be used to view and manage an ...

The new VMware vSphere Storage Appliance will transform server internal storage into shared pools of storage, removing the shared storage hardware requirement and enabling more SMBs to take full ...

In mid-December, storage giant EMC announced plans to acquire privately held VMware. It’s EMC’s third acquisition of a software company this year in its drive to transform itself from a ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Storage virtualization is an industry trend that could affect how enterprises deal with data, Gartner analyst Chris Wolf said. In addition to VMware’s latest strides, Microsoft is doing similar ...