A “what the…? ” moment, expanding a datastore and the GUI indicated that after expansion, the VMFS version will be VMFS 6….. As we all know, upgrading the VMFS version of a datastore to VMFS 6 without erasing the contents is not possible, so at face value this looks like Continue Reading
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ESXi 5.5 – Automating VMFS UNMAP w/ PowerCLI and PowerShell
With vSphere 6.5 recently released, a nice feature was the automated execution of the UNMAP command against thin provisioned datastores to reclaim space. This requires no user interaction, it’s fully automated for you and can free up significant amounts of space from your datastores. There’s some good information regarding the Continue Reading