VMware and EMC 5300 Direct attached

VMWare 5.0 using EMCVNX5300 direct attached SAN.

I want to install Windows 2008 Virtual Macines that will host the video surveillance system.  Archiving requirements video call flat for up to 10 TB of storage from the video files.

My question is how best to configure the LUNS on SAN VMFS or RDM?  With VMFS, I would have to introduce several 2 TB LUN and through the Windows Disk Manager to extend the volume.  If I use RDM am still limited to 2 TB virtual disk file?

I want to keep the simplified system, but I have to take into account the needs of e/s for video archiving for up to 150 HD cameras.

John McMasters

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Welceom to the community = with vsphere 5, you can submit more than 2 TB LUN actually up to 64 TB - so I would use RDMs with 10 TB raw LUNS to the virtual machines - note, you will still need a VMFS data store to house the VMDK file pointer that will redirect the r/w on raw LUNS

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