For organizations considering ESXi for mainstream hypervisor usage, one important consideration is disk partitioning. One of my peers in the industry, Jason Boche (rhymes with hockey) states it best ...

We looking to make the move to a multiple ESXi host + shared storage (i.e. SAN) environment. I have the servers specked out for VMware 2 HP DL360G7 with dual 6 core procs and 48GB of ram per server.

Cheap fast supported shared storage for ESX?<BR><BR>That would be NFS on Redhat Enterprise Linux with commodity disk behind it (MSA, Sun Thumper, etc etc).<BR><BR>But really it is pick any two, ...

VMware has announced upgrades to its Virtual SAN (VSAN) functionality in the vSphere 6.5 virtualisation environment, with enhancements that include support for containers, physical servers via ...