RDM

Workflow diagram illustrating Migration Flow at a Glance for Converting RDMs to VMDKs: A Practical Migration Pattern for Legacy Workloads.

Converting RDMs to VMDKs: A Practical Migration Pattern for Legacy Workloads

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Raw Device Mappings tend to show up in the places where infrastructure history is still attached to the workload. A database server was moved from physical hardware years ago. A file server needed a very large LUN before VMDK limits improved. A clustered application depended on shared storage. A storage team wanted array-level tooling to … Explore: Converting RDMs to VMDKs: A Practical Migration Pattern…

Decision diagram illustrating Decision Workflow: Do Not Start With the Reset for When Fibre Channel Paths Lie: A Safe Fabric Login Reset Runbook for ESXi.

When Fibre Channel Paths Lie: A Safe Fabric Login Reset Runbook for ESXi

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There are storage incidents where the host looks half-recovered. The fabric switch is back online. The link light is good. The array port is healthy. Some paths may even show up again. But inside ESXi, the storage view still does not match reality. A datastore has fewer paths than expected. An RDM-backed workload is not … Explore: When Fibre Channel Paths Lie: A Safe Fabric…