Datastore

Providing a Nexenta iSCSI target to an ESXi initiator

2012-04-03 624 words, 3 minutes
datastore
esxi
initiator
iscsi
nexenta
nexentastor
target
vmfs
vmware
zfs
zvol

Here’s the deal: create a ZFS volume on the Nexenta server, share it as iSCSI and attach it using the software iSCSI initiator from ESXi 5.

Moving VM on ESXi without VMotion or Storage VMotion

2012-03-18 1207 words, 6 minutes
datastore
esx
esxi
hypervisor
nfs
share
storage vmotion
virtual machine
vmotion
vmware

One of the missing feature in the free version of ESXi 5 is the ability to move Virtual Machines between Datastores (Storage vMotion) and/or ESXi servers (vMotion). There is, however, a way to move a Virtual Machine from one hypervisor to another or to use another storage space ; at the cost of VM outage duration. Here’s a brief review of what can be done and how regarding Virtual Machine instances and storage migration.