We've had a long running Dell Poweredge server in our server closet that finally suffered an abrupt hardware failure. There was a particular set virtual disks on that machine that management wouldn't ...

This post from moullas reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while but keep forgetting! Problem: Is there any way to programmatically match up a Windows drive letter with its ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

There's a new way to speed up read operations on your VMs. The new VMware-developed vFlash server-side read caching, announced at VMworld 2013 as part of VMware vSphere 5.5, aims to dramatically ...