VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan

This was a great find – fixed the 45 minute boot time due to the large number of RDMs in use: VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan.

EMC Community Network – ECN: Need to know the difference between storage pool and RAID group?

Need to know the difference between storage pool and RAID group? via EMC Community Network – ECN: Need to know the difference between storage pool and RAID group?. A great reply to a posted question – all show in a easy to read table.

VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts

VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts.

Adaptive Queueing vs. Storage I/O Control |

An excellent and well explained guide for VMWare IO storage control  – how queue depth and queue full conditions are handled. Adaptive Queueing vs. Storage I/O Control |.