Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran, speaker, author, blogger and VMware expert with more than 25 years of experience. VMware vSphere ESXi’s vMotion feature has proved to be one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

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 ...

With scalability improvements, network and storage I/O control, and countless other enhancements, VMware continues to redefine the possibilities for server virtualization VMware has never been a ...

The launch of vSphere 5 and its new storage related features will set the precedent for a complete rethink on how a new datacenter’s storage infrastructure should be designed and deployed. vSphere 5’s ...

VMware Continues to Expand Offerings to Deliver Efficiency, Agility and Business Continuity to ompanies of All Sizes Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21 July 2011 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global ...