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Hello

I'm running ESX 3.5, update5, as well as the center of vSphere 4.0.  So far, I've never had a need to create a virtual machine with more than 2 TB of storage, but a situation occurred when I need to migrate a file server, about 6 TB of storage to the virtual machine.  At the present time, my SAN only me will create up to LUN 2 to (well that in the update has been set for him, that has changed - once the update is applied, the limit is of ~ 32 TB).  How would you recommend that I handle this situation, while keeping my risk of corruption or failure of a single element of my setup, as low as reasonably possible?  I'm looking for recommendations VM/SAN, as long as Windows (2008 R2, probably)-dynamic disks, the separate discs, etc.

Thank you.

ESX 3.5 and 4 have a limit of 2 TB-512 size lun.  Dynamic disks work fine, but are not the best choice.   You can always present LUNS and mount the secondary LUN as folders in your LUN master rather than assign a drive letter to each.

-KjB

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