Recently I got the following question from my customer: Can I mount a datastore formatted under vSphere 6.0 to the vSphere 5.1 or 5.5 host? I answered: yes, it should work fine because there is the same major version of VMFS but I needed to confirm it, it's me 🙂 I have not able to find… Read More: Upgrading VMFS datastores after migrating to vSphere 6? »
Today I needed to expand a datastore on my nested ESXi 5.5 in my lab. Unfortunately when I resized a VMDK for my ESXi host, I was not able to expand the datastore via Web Client - because no additional space was available! I did not to want to install again vSphere Client (I know… Read More: How to expand VMFS datastore from the command line (CLI)… »
Recently, Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) are often on speakers, bloggers's lips. So I decided to write this post which covers some Virtual Volumes features and answers for the following questions: What are Virtual Volumes (VVOL)? Why Virtual Volumes (VVOL) are really useful? What are Storage Container and Protocol Endpoint? What is Policy Based Management? VVOL requirements… Read More: What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.0: Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) »