Six is a party and at number six are three features I put at a tie: ESXi Firewall, vSphere Web Client and Storage vMotion. Let's start with Storage vMotion. Up until VMware vSphere 5 you were unable ...

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 one host to another as well as ...

We ran into the following problem: we added a new LUN to our small SAN when we upgraded from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0. We wanted to move a number of VMs from one LUN to the other using storage vMotion. One ...

If VMware is of any interest to you, you’ve probably been consumed with the vSphere 5.0 licensing changes, both the ones announced during the product’s initial launch and those revealed later, after ...

Storage vMotion is for moving between SAN's, or between LUN's on a single SAN (say to move from RAID6 to RAID10 if the performance profile dictates). It also allows you to move between thick and thin ...

Storage always has been a critical component of a VMware environment, so seeing storage getting some attention from the vSphere developers is nice. VMware has added many small features like the ...

Shared storage hardware is commonplace in larger organizations, but smaller ones typically can't justify the expense. But shared storage is required for many core virtualization features, including ...

With welcome improvements to key features, as well as the bundling of backup and recovery, the leading virtualization platform doesn't disappoint In the not so distant past, VMware held a long and ...

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, unveiled the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, a new software product that will bring the rich business continuity and automated ...