Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

So, vSphere Storage DRS is suppose to require Enterprise Plus licenses, but we only have Enterprise and have no problems creating datastore clusters and enabling Storage DRS on them. I am beginning to ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

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Google has introduced a new configuration of the database within its cloud platform Google App Engine, after periods of instability in its cloud infrastructure. The High Replication Datastore (HRD) ...

How has everyone else designed out their roles/permissions structure for vSphere specifically? One problem is that people on other teams don’t like to be able to see objects that they have restricted ...

In a little over four years' time, the project born from Google's internal container management efforts has upended the best-laid plans of VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, and every other would-be king of ...