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.

Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi

Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi Interesting guide on how to troubleshoot VM Power on issues relating to locked files. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10051