My latest customer was still running on VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 and asked me to upgrade their environment. Their whole environment was running on NetApp storage and for ESX there is a change in the Storage Array Type Policy (SATP) and the Path Selection Policy (PSP) when moving from ESX 3.5 to […]
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Harlem shuffle with VMDKs
Today I was brainstorming with Arnim van Lieshout about how to place all VMDKs on our LUNs, because right now we are facing two problems in our environment: No balancing of IO workloads across LUNs VMDKs often don’t fit nicely into the remaining LUNs space, so we lose a lot of GBs to unused space. […]