Of course you use iSCSI LUNs, for the precise reason you outlined - if you use VMDKs on a VMFS volume, you lose all the agent capabilities provided by your SAN. You also get to skip a couple of ...
I have a Dell server with a lot of memory and cpu horsepower, and 3TB of space in a raid 5 setup. I plan to use ESXi to have 4 virtual servers running on this box. My question is how do I best setup ...