Disk drives are the foundation of modern data storage, but operating systems cannot use physical storage directly. The platters, heads, tracks and sectors of a physical drive must be translated into a ...

So this may be a dumb question, but I'm trying to figure out on Windows boxes how to tell between a LUN vs a true local disk to the server (When you present a LUN to a machine it appears as a local ...

Let's assume a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on vSphere. The VM is a file server and needs to present around 10TB usable storage. In an ideal world Windows would just see a 10TB pool since there ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

For VMware VI3 and vSphere environments, there is no clear guidance on how storage should be sized. We do have one firm piece of information, and that is the configuration maximums document. For both ...

After scoping out the DS2413+'s hardware, we fired up the latest version of Synology's DiskStation Manager software (DSM 4.2-3202). Version 4.2 brings many improvements over 4.1. For example, LUN ...