In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Expanding a Virtual disk is quite helpful when the Virtual Machine is running out of storage space or requires more capacity for apps and data. Moreover, executing this allows users to allocate ...

VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that its virtual machine disk format specification for defining and formatting virtual ...

About six months ago, in a previous Virtualization Review article, I provided a solution for converting a VMware virtual disk into a virtual SSD (Solid State Drive) by means of the VMware ESXi command ...

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, ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...