I just noticed that Hyper-V 3.0 (Included in Windows 😎 can create VHD:s up to and over 16 TB in size. Each volume that is, as in a single VMs NTFS volume. In ESX you can only create a 2 TB volume and that is starting to feel a bit small.
Win8 is still prebeta, I know, but it kinda shows the intent and is actually possible today. I hope ESX will catch up easily and that there is not any built in problems in the VMDK spec preventing it to expand beyond 2 TB?
/Henrik
Hello.
In ESX you can only create a 2 TB volume and that is starting to feel a bit small.
You can create a 64 TB VMFS volume with vSphere! You just have to do so with 2 TB - 512 byte chunks.
Unfortuantely NDAs prohibit the release of any information and VMware won't officailly comment, so we will all just have to wait and see.
Good Luck!
Let´s see what´s is new vSphere 5.0 Hope....
Firstly - this is a future version of Windows - which is not even in Beta.
Who knows - maybe the intent is already there??
Maish
VMware Communities Moderator
Co-Author of VMware vSphere Design
VMFS yes sure. But I'm talking VMDK here...
/H
Unfortuantely NDAs prohibit the release of any information and VMware won't officailly comment, so we will all just have to wait and see.
I stand by my "official" answer then.