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Finding VM File Locks on ESXi: A Production-Safe Runbook Before You Kill Processes

ai, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Artificial Intelligence, ESXi, NFS, VCF, vCF (VMware Cloud Foundation), VMDK, VMFS, vSAN, vSphere

A virtual machine file lock issue rarely shows up at a convenient time. It usually appears when a VM refuses to power on, a consolidation task is stuck, a backup window has overrun, or vCenter and an ESXi host disagree about the VM’s state. That is exactly when bad habits get expensive. The temptation is […]

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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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