Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

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Is it possible under ISCSI to share a datastore volume between mutiple ESXi Hosts? I have many ISO files on an ISCSI SAN volume that I would like to access from mutiple ESXi Hosts rather than copying ...

It is possible to have a few number of large NFS datastores, but it is also a valid configuration to leverage a larger number of smaller NFS datastores. This may or may not be on multiple storage ...