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I see. So I have spinners with local storage. so each vm uses the local storage of that host.<br />
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ok so I will label them in windows.
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I see. So I have spinners with local storage. so each vm uses the local storage of that host.

ok so I will label them in windows.

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I see. So I have spinners with local storage. so each vm uses the local storage of that host.
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Correct, the virtual disks, are only as fast as the datastore they are stored on.
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> I see. So I have spinners with local storage. so each vm uses the local storage of that host.


Correct, the virtual disks, are only as fast as the datastore they are stored on.

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do you prefer any specific schema for labeling the drives, ie. os, shares, data, etc?
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do you prefer any specific schema for labeling the drives, ie. os, shares, data, etc?

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we use terms, like System, or OS, Data, Apps, Shares, Web, SQL Data
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we use terms, like System, or OS, Data, Apps, Shares, Web, SQL Data

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Hi Experts,<br />
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Is drive labeling a best practice. I had heard it slightly improves performance. So if you have multiple drives it would be better to name them. Can you confirm?<br />
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esxi 5.5<br />
vcenter5.1<br />
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thx.
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Hi Experts,

Is drive labeling a best practice. I had heard it slightly improves performance. So if you have multiple drives it would be better to name them. Can you confirm?

esxi 5.5
vcenter5.1

thx.

Drive Labeling

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VMware

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Storage Hardware

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Virtualization

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