After previously writing about installing ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi, Tom Fenton walks through the process of using a USB flash drive as a local datastore on the Pi.

Yes, iSCSI "Share storage" is the primary method for VMWare hosts to all talk to the same datastores. Simply make the LUN available to all your VMWare hosts you want to be able to access it, and ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the ...

How to Add LUN to VMware ESX. VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These ...

Additional information on increasing the maximum number of NFS datastores can be found at VMware KB 2239. VMware KB 1007909 also has some additional advanced NFS tweaks which may be of interest.

Let’s get started and explore vSAN use cases! VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that pools local disks across ESXi hosts to create a shared datastore, offering scalability, ...