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What is VMFS and How Its different from Conventional File Systems
Figure 1 : VMware vSphere Storage Choices VMFS has always been one of the critical component of Vmware vSphere storage stack as it abstracts the underlying storage and presents it to Virtual Machines...
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ESXCLI-* Storage commands every vSphere Admin needs to know
There are numerous events where the data or information showed in vSphere Client is not good enough for vSphere Admin to troubleshoot or root cause the issue particularly about Storage device,...
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How to find WWNN, WWPN, Driver & Link State information of HBA installed on...
In Continuation of my previous post, I will be discussing few more useful Storage Commands widely used in Troubleshooting Storage issues or Configuring & Managing Storage devices in vSphere...
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What Is ALUA (Asymmetric Logic Unit Access) & How ALUA is different from A/A...
In this article, we are going to discuss about ALUA related Frequently Asked Questions: WHAT IS ALUA? WHY ALUA? HOW ALUA is different from Active/Passive Array How ALUA is different from symmetric...
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What is SCSI RESERVATION & How it Works
In this article, we will be discussing few of the very basic questions frequently being asked about SCSI reservations. Why do we need SCSI Reservation? What is SCSI Reservation? Different Type of...
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LUN Masking vs Zoning – How Zoning is different from LUN Masking
In this article, we will be discussing about commonly asked questions like: What is Zoning and Why do we need it? Difference between Soft Zoning and Hard Zoning? On which component of Datacenter,...
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What is Storage Multipathing & Why do we need It?
In this Article, we will be discussing about: Why do we need Multipathing? What is Multipathing? Advantages of Multipathing How Multipathing Works Before understanding what is Multipathing, let’s...
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Understanding VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture
In last article, we discussed about basics of Multipathing like: What is Multipathing & Why Multipathing? Advantages of Multipathing? How Multipathing works? Why do we need Multipathing driver? In...
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Software Based Initiator vs Hardware Dependent vs Hardware Independent Initiator
Before digging into different type of Initiator Types, Let’s understand first: What is Initiator & Target? What is Host Bus Adapter? What it does and why do we need it? CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE:...
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