Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores. For VMware environments, planning your storage ...

After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

I have a Dell MD3220 SAN (not iSCSI) with dual storage controllers connected to two Dell R620, each with 2 SAS ports - cabled for redundant paths. On the SAN I have created the disk group, (2) 2TB ...