#storage
grep -l "storage" /portfolio/* · 2 entriesA lab that stopped because snapshots ate the datastore
Every VM on one datastore froze at once. The cause was months of forgotten snapshots growing quietly until the disk was full.
When the storage failure took the backups with it
What I took from the April 2011 EBS outage: a network change, a re-mirroring storm, and why one availability zone wasn't as isolated as people assumed.