Troubleshooting vSphere Storage

Preface

In 1998, a small company consisting of only five employees came out of stealth in Palo Alto, claiming to have successfully run Windows 95 on a virtual machine. This company was called VMware. Shortly thereafter, the first VMware product, a type 2 hypervisor dubbed Workstation 1.0 was released. In 2006, VMware really started to infiltrate the enterprise market with the release of ESX 3.0 and vCenter 2.0. Since then, the type 1 hypervisor ESX, now only ESXi, has been a major driver in providing business agility in bringing services to their customers.

When we think about many of the features that have been integrated into vSphere over the years, such as HA, vMotion, and Distributed Resource Scheduling; they all have shared one thing in common, ...