Tag Archives: #vstorage

VMware iSCSI Multipath (vSphere5)

Posted on August 22, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Update: tag all Round Robin LUNs in one script I’ve posted about Multipath twice before: manual command-line and using the Equallogic script. With vSphere5 you can now do it all from the GUI tho admittedly with many more steps. Disclaimer: … Continue reading →

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Upgrade and Expand vSphere5 VMFS partition > 2TB

Posted on August 14, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Quick steps to expand a 2TB VMFS3 datastore to >2TB with vSphere5 VMFS3 datastore, ~2TB on a 3.6TB LUN

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VMDK growth patterns (VMFS3 / 5)

Posted on August 14, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

I got curious about block sizes and how thin provisioned .vmdks and snapshot .vmdks grow, especially now that VMFS5 uses a 1MB “unified” block size. I came up with the following table: VMDK File growth patterns VMFS3 ESXi 4.1………Thin Provision…..Snapshots … Continue reading →

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