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HenrikElm
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Hyper-V 3.0 makes 16 TB VM diskfiles, when can ESX do it?

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

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vmroyale
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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. Smiley Wink

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!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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MauroBonder
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Let´s see what´s is new vSphere 5.0 Smiley Wink Hope....

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maishsk
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Firstly - this is a future version of Windows - which is not even in Beta.

Who knows - maybe the intent is already there??

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HenrikElm
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VMFS yes sure. But I'm talking VMDK here...

/H

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vmroyale
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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. Smiley Happy

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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