Virtual Machines Size

[cyriltam]

HI All

Can the Virtual Machines more then 256GB for one Virtual HDD? Mant THX

Best regards

Cyril

[Rockapot · Accepted solution]

Yes they can however this depends on how you formated the LUN.

VMFS with a 1MB block size can have virtual disk files up to 256GB

VMFS with a 2MB block size can have virtual disk files up to 512GB

VMFS with a 4MB block size can have virtual disk files up to 1024GB

VMFS with a 8MB block size can have virtual disk files up to 2048GB

Carl

[SuryaVMware]

Yes. It can be as big as 2 TB. However, Your operating system should support such a big filesystem, Which most of the moderan OS should do.

Check this for configuration max with VMware.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_config_max.pdf

Let me know if this helps.

-Surya

[cyriltam01]

Where can i change the block size for vM, thx

[Nick_F]

You only get the option when creating a datastore, you can't change it later without reformatting it (and losing the data). You could storage vmotion all the VMs to a temp datastore and then reformat it and move them back though