Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

I ask as this is likely a locking issue with VMFS. It likely would be cleared by rebooting all the hosts to clear whatever stale lock is sticking around. But these sorts of issues are a PITA and ...

It is possible to have a few number of large NFS datastores, but it is also a valid configuration to leverage a larger number of smaller NFS datastores. This may or may not be on multiple storage ...