The Case for Larger Than 2TB Virtual Disks and The Gotcha with VMFS

Good post by Michael Webster (thank you)

Hypervisor competition is really starting to heat up. VMware just released vSphere 5.1 and Microsoft has recently released Windows Server 2012 and the new version of Hyper-V. A significant  new feature available now in Hyper-V / Windows 2012 is a new disk format VHDX, which has a maximum size of 64TB. With the new filesystem in Windows Server 2012 (ReFS) the maximum volume size increases to 256TB ( NTFS was limited to 16TB @ 4K cluster size). So how does vSphere 5 and 5.1 compare and what are the key considerations and gotchas? What are the implications for business critical applications?

Read on here

Posted by rogerluethy on September 17, 2012

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/the-case-for-larger-than-2tb-virtual-disks-and-the-gotcha-with-vmfs/