VMware ESXi

iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) encapsulates SCSI control and data in TCP/IP packets, allowing access to storage devices over the …

There are certain situations when a storage device must be presented directly to the guest operating system inside a VM. In …

VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a clustered file system from VMware that provides storage virtualization. VMFS offers many virtalization-based …

Datastores in VMware vSphere are storage containers for files. They could be located on a local server hard drive or across …

Direct-attached storage is sometimes used for the ESXi installation. It can also be used in smaller environments that don’t require shared …

ESXi hosts support host-level storage virtualization, which logically abstracts the physical storage layer from virtual machines. The following storage technologies …