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vSphere5 – Storage – import a 4TB LUN

Posted on August 12, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

With vSphere5 you can format 64TB LUNs with VMFS5, but you are still limited to 2TB VMDK files. [note that a new VMFS5 datastore has a 1MB block size and 2TB VMDK max, breaking away from the old 1/2/4/8 = … Continue reading →

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ESXi Lockdown Mode

Posted on February 17, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Lockdown is a new feature for VMware ESXi 4.x. It adds security by restricting access to your ESXi hosts to either the root user on the local console or from a vCenter management server. With Lockdown enabled, the vSphere client … Continue reading →

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