How to Query VM Disk Format in vSphere 5
Prior to vSphere 5, it was not trivial to identify the particular disk format for a given virtual machine's disk. Using the vSphere Client, you would see a virtual machine's disk be displayed as either...
View ArticleHow to Create an SE Sparse (Space-Efficient) Disk in vSphere 5.1
You probably may have heard, that with the upcoming release of vSphere 5.1, a new virtual machine disk format will be introduced called called SE Sparse (Space-Efficient). One of it's features is to...
View ArticleEmulating an SSD Virtual Disk in a VMware Environment
I continue to be amazed everyday at all the awesome features and challenges being tackled by our VMware Engineering organization and yesterday was another example of that. There was a question that was...
View ArticleMultiple VMDKs in VCSA 6.0?
One thing you might notice after deploying the new VCSA 6.0 is that it now includes 11 VMDKs. If you are like me, you are probably asking why are there so many? If you look at past releases of the...
View ArticleNew method of enabling Multiwriter VMDK flag in vSphere 6.0 Update 1 (UI + API)
Prior to vSphere 6.0, in order for multiple Virtual Machines to share a VMFS-backed VMDK, the Multiwriter VMDK flag must be enabled, which is accomplished by adding a specific VM Advanced Setting as...
View ArticleUpdates to VMDK partitions & disk resizing in VCSA 6.5
Similiar to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.0 release, the new VCSA 6.5 is also composed of multiple virtual machine disks (VMDKs). Each VMDK maps to a specific function and OS partition within...
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