topic Re: MSA1500+Windows: Disk size limits in Disk Enclosures

MSA1500+Windows: Disk size limits

Ben Wold — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:09:21 GMT

I have a customer that wants a 16TB volume on a windows server. Is it possible to present 16TB from an MSA1500 to a Windows 2003 server as one drive letter?

I know the performance will be less than stellar but he wants to do it. Yikes.

Re: MSA1500+Windows: Disk size limits

Basil Vizgin — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:21:08 GMT

MSA can present maximum 2TB LUNs. But you can concatenate this slices in one big volume with Windows Server dynamic disk or other LVM like Veritas.

Re: MSA1500+Windows: Disk size limits

Ben Wold — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:30:45 GMT

I just found a link pertaining to that.
I know it's a horrible idea.

Thanks for your input.

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