ESX 3.0.1 Storage Limit

[scotty_p]

Is there a limit to the size of the LUN attached to an ESX 3.0.1 host?

I just connected to a 2.4TB LUN and have rescanned multiple times and it shows the path and LUN ID, but the capacity is 0.0B.

Thanks,

Scott

[depping · Accepted solution]

2TB is the limit. (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_config_max.pdf)

Duncan

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[Dave_Mishchenko]

It's 2 TB - . The same applies to a VMDK file and to a RDM. You can create volumes up to 64 TB using extents (32 * 2 TB LUNs) but you should generally avoid using extents.

[scotty_p]

Thanks to both of you. I was hoping that was the case.

[morciod]

We will be configuring a Raw Lun for a VMguest. Does this limit pertain to Raw devices as well? We expect to configure at least a 3TB lun

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Yes, the maximum for an RDM is 2 TB.

[morciod]

So after internal discussion we determined that on our guest which will be Windows 2003, we will configure qty=3 1TB raw luns and use dynamic disk to concatinate them.

Thanks for your response

[depping]

It's up to you but spanning disk isn't my preferred method. What are you gonna use the VM for?

Duncan

My virtualisation blog:

[morciod]

The VM will run an Onbase retrival application for static data. (archived data)