VMware vSAN is a Hyper-Converged storage (Software Defined Storage) solutions with a vSphere-native, high-performance architecture. With software defined storage, it has opened new opportunities to new skills. With vSAN we can use local disk and create highly available, scalable, high performance da…
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Emulate HDD as SSD flash disk on Esxi and VMware workstation
I was required (emulated) virtual fake SSD in VMware workstation for few demos and testing purpose. I am already using SSD on my system, If vmdks are kept on the Solid state drives, VMs detects vmdk disks as SSD/Flash disk, but if you don't have SSD, it can be easily emulated with a trick configurat…
Mount NFS share to multiple ESXi hosts
"A datastore with the same name and backing configuration already exists in the current datacenter. Change the datastore name and backing configuration to continue."
While adding NFS datastore on esxi server I saw above error. This NFS drive was already added on the Esxi001 successfully, but when…
VMWare ESXi add and create NFS datastore
In the earlier article Microsoft Windows 2016 Install and configure NFS server for ESXi and Linux, I shown on installing and configuring NFS server on Microsoft Windows 2016 sever. NFS datastores is one of the file type of datastore to keep virtual machines on VMWare Esxi server, This is also good …
Microsoft Windows 2016 Install and configure NFS server for ESXi and Linux
NFS (Network file system) is a distributed file sharing solution for diversified cross platform environments. It was originally designed to run on Sun solaris, This also supports and works well on windows and non-windows computers. NFS uses RPC and usually use Port (TCP and UDP) 111 and 2049. There …
VMware hot-extend was invoked with size is not supported: Virtual Machine HDD VMDK
Last day I received some critical tasks on production to increase Virtual Machine Hard disk VMDK size, on around 200 vms. For 99.99% I have my own VMWare PowerCLI scripts repository to automate my tasks to complete it before time. While running script I was getting errors, To further troubleshoot I …
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