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.

I'm looking to build a single ESXi server (Free Edition for now) for home lab usage. I know the basics of what I'll be getting (Quad-core Ivy Bridge or Haswell / 32GB mem / quad-port NIC), but storage ...

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 ...