vSphere – Extending VMFS Datastore–Live (With Unisphere)

November 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Occasionally, virtualization administrators and/or storage administrators may find it necessary to expand a live VMFS datastore in a vSphere environment. With the use of the new EMC Unisphere client and the vSphere Client, the procedure is extremely easy. Read on for a how-to on extending VMFS datastores in a live environment using the Unisphere client.

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Enterprise Computing: Thin Provisioning and The Cookie Monster!

November 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varying discplines. Following the presentations from 3Par and Symantec, there was heated debate about the implementation of Thin Provisioning and the ability to reclaim released storage resources. This post covers the basic concepts of Thin Provisioning and more [...]

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