Storage

How to change the storage adapter to Paravirtual (PVSCSI) for a Windows guest

VMware offers multiple types of virtual SCSI-adapters to use in your virtual machines. Based on your choice of operating system VMware will offer a Buslogic or LSI logic adapter. There is however a Paravirtual SCSI-controller that can improve performance for your virtual machines, especially in environments with high IO-loads. This controller will provide greater throughput and lower CPU utilization for your VMkernel.

Install and configure Openfiler for ESXi shared storage with NFS and iSCSI

When you have created an ESXi environment and want to work with features such as vMotion and High Availability you will need shared storage in your environment. Openfiler is a good choice to setup a storage appliance to provide shared storage with NFS or iSCSI.

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