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

ai, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Artificial Intelligence, legacy workloads, migration runbook, powercli, Raw Device Mapping, RDM, rollback planning, storage migration, Storage vMotion, VCF, vCF (VMware Cloud Foundation), VMDK, VMware storage, vSAN, vSphere, VxRail, workload modernization

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 […]

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

ai, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Artificial Intelligence, ESXi, FCoE, Fibre Channel, FLOGI, multipathing, RDM, runbook, SAN, storage paths, troubleshooting, vCF (VMware Cloud Foundation), VCF Operations, vmhba, vSphere

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

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

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