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Lessons LearnedHA, DR and COOP will protect you from unplanned events but preventingoperator errors can also help with unplanned downtime and potential corruptionLessons Learned:Never extend production VMFS volumesAlways zone your fabric• This is not necessary for the operation of ESX servers, but will be an issue ifWindows servers are SAN-attached to the same fabric• This is especially important when installing a Windows server connected tothe same fabric(s), because it polls all storage that it sees and will corruptanything it has access toNever attach a virtual disk file to another VM that’s not the original owner ofthat disk• VMware 3.0 uses series of flat files, delta files and snapshot disks tomaintain a full logical virtual disk. Any modification to the wrong disk willrender your virtual disk file set unusableRevert to snapshot function in VirtualCenter does not have a confirmationdialog box
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