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Figure 6.57
h e Edit Settings
dialog box tells you
what kind of disk
is confi gured, but
doesn't provide
current space usage
statistics.
Closely related to virtual disks are the virtual SCSI adapters that are present within
every VM.
Exploring Virtual Storage Adapters
You con i gure virtual storage adapters in your VMs, and you will attach these adapters to virtual
disks and RDMs, just as a physical server needs an adapter to connect physical hard disks to. In
the guest OS, each virtual storage adapter has its own HBA queue, so for intense storage work-
loads, there are advantages to coni guring multiple virtual SCSI adapters within a single guest.
There are a number of different virtual storage adapters in ESXi, as shown in Figure 6.58.
