For organizations considering ESXi for mainstream hypervisor usage, one important consideration is disk partitioning. One of my peers in the industry, Jason Boche (rhymes with hockey) states it best ...

We looking to make the move to a multiple ESXi host + shared storage (i.e. SAN) environment. I have the servers specked out for VMware 2 HP DL360G7 with dual 6 core procs and 48GB of ram per server.

A big part of the messaging delivered at EMC VMware’s 10th annual VMworld trade show last week surrounded the software-defined data center. No longer content to simply deliver compute virtualization ...

VMware's VSAN 1.0 combines easy setup and management with high availability and high performance -- and freedom from traditional storage systems Convergence of compute and storage is all the rage in ...

I'm looking to build a single ESXi server (Free Edition for now) for home lab usage. I know the basics of what I'll be getting (Quad-core Ivy Bridge or Haswell / 32GB mem / quad-port NIC), but storage ...

Shared storage is the backbone of highly available server virtualization. With it, workloads can be moved freely between hosts, and maintenance is a snap. Without it, an environment is substantially ...