It begins with an IT administrator putting a virtual disk on one of the available storage devices and going home for the night. It percolates overnight and by the time the admin is back to work, it explodes, sending flack in the form of 50 or so messages from angry users who cannot access their environments because the storage array the virtual disk was delegated to did not have enough room.

After hours of troubleshooting the system, the admin finally finds the cause of the issue and shifts the excess load to a different datastore using VMware