Hi there, I am a newbie to VMs. I have been using it for the last few weeks and am having fun with it!
We are creating some offsie backup for our clients and have a server with 4 x 2TB drives in a RAID5 (5.5TB of usuable space) - Now i know both VMware and windows server 2008 (NTFS) have a max parition size of 2TB. My question is, on the same virtual disk from the array, can i make a VM of 50gb for windows and then somehow make a 5,45TB datastore using GPT or another way so that i can access it from my VM and use it like a second partition in windows?
if this is not possible is there an alternitive for larger data stores?
Hello,
I don't think there is a way to present the lun larger than 1.95 tb because even if you present the LUN as an RDM the limitation is 1.95 tb
but you can add an extend to the lun and your datastore can grow upto 64 tb.
As hostd said we can create a VMFS volume of max 64TB by adding extents.
Please refer the following sections from ESX configuration guide.
Creating and Increasing VMFS Datastores
Increase VMFS Datastores
here's the URL for ESX configuration guilde.
hmm, seems like the URL went missing.