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    <title>topic Re: Thinking about adding a Raid in VI: VMware ESX™ 3.5 Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You should consider that &amp;gt; 2TB LUNs are not supported.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;--Matt&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:06:11 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>mcowger</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2009-03-12T22:06:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Thinking about adding a Raid</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VI-VMware-ESX-3-5-Discussions/Thinking-about-adding-a-Raid/m-p/1989019#M96837</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a home ESX server that i use for various things, but i was thinking about making a fileserver out of it too..  in the tune of win2k3 server &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; i have a raid card an areca 1220 and i found that there are drivers(albiet beta) for esx 3.5 for it.  i was thinking of getting about 5 1.5TB hard drives for it and making a raid 5.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i was thinking of formatting it with vmfs and putting a large 5TB virtual disk on it and assigning that to the guest OS. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;whats things should i consider when doing this in esx? &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:34:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>citrusfizz</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-03-12T21:34:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Thinking about adding a Raid</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VI-VMware-ESX-3-5-Discussions/Thinking-about-adding-a-Raid/m-p/1989020#M96838</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You should consider that &amp;gt; 2TB LUNs are not supported.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;--Matt&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:06:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mcowger</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-03-12T22:06:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Thinking about adding a Raid</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VI-VMware-ESX-3-5-Discussions/Thinking-about-adding-a-Raid/m-p/1989021#M96839</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;and that Windows cant see a LUN larger than 2TB. Depending on the SAN, you could create a large RAID-5 array and then split that into 2x 2TB LUNs and a 1TB LUN. Format with VMFS ensuring you select the correct block size to enable VMFS of this size, then add a single VMDK on each LUN to use as your data volumes. Leave around 20% space though for VMware overhead&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:10:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JoJoGabor</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-03-12T22:10:19Z</dc:date>
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