Lot has changed with vSphere 5.0 and so has one of the most under-appreciated “features”…. VMFS. VMFS has been substantially changed VMFS-5 uses GPT instead of MBR
- VMFS-5 supports volumes up to 64TB
- This includes Pass-through RDMs!
- VMFS-5 uses a Unified Blocksize –> 1MB
- VMFS-5 uses smaller Sub-Blocks
- ~30.000 8KB blocks versus ~3000 64KB blocks with VMFS-3
- VMFS-5 has support for very small files (1KB)
- Non-disruptive upgrade from VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
- ATS locking enhancements
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