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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said

      @BRRABill 16 in XS.

      That answer confuses me.

      Do you mean you can only have 16 VDs for a VM in XS?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @ntoxicator
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        @ntoxicator said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

        Still no reason for folks to run ProxMox in Business environment? I know I got hit over the head before making this mention

        I can't imagine any reason for it. It's got a few basic issues that will never go away...

        • It's an endemically evil company that you don't want to associate with
        • The core idea is bad - mashing two different virtualization solutions together on one box
        • They just make the GUI, not the products, so they themselves likely know nothing special about it
        • It's non-standard so getting assistance or support is hard
        • It has no real benefits to offset the negatives.
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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          You can have 16 vDisk per VM in XS.

          Yes

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
            last edited by

            @DustinB3403 said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

            I wonder how the conversion would go for EXT3 to QCOW, along with the VM conversion.....

            EXT4 -> XFS

            VHD -> QCOW

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            • ntoxicatorN
              ntoxicator @DustinB3403
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              @DustinB3403 said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

              @BRRABill 16 in XS.

              Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
              A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on more than one physical disk. If a simple volume is not a system volume or boot volume, you can extend it across additional disks to create a spanned volume, or you can create a spanned volume in unallocated space on a dynamic disk.
              You need at least two dynamic disks in addition to the startup disk to create a spanned volume. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 dynamic disks.

              So can Span 16 disk, as 16 is limit with XS

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

                @DustinB3403 said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

                I wonder how the conversion would go for EXT3 to QCOW, along with the VM conversion.....

                EXT4 -> XFS

                VHD -> QCOW

                Yes... thanks... lol... I meant I'm curious how the process to upgrade an existing system would actually perform...

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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill @DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said

                  You can have 16 vDisk per VM in XS.

                  Yes

                  is there any limit on the Windows side? (I've never had to span that many disks, was just wondering.)

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                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill @ntoxicator
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                    @ntoxicator

                    Thanks.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @BRRABill
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                      @BRRABill said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

                      @DustinB3403 said

                      You can have 16 vDisk per VM in XS.

                      Yes

                      is there any limit on the Windows side? (I've never had to span that many disks, was just wondering.)

                      @ntoxicator said in

                      Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
                      A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on more than one physical disk. If a simple volume is not a system volume or boot volume, you can extend it across additional disks to create a spanned volume, or you can create a spanned volume in unallocated space on a dynamic disk.
                      You need at least two dynamic disks in addition to the startup disk to create a spanned volume. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 dynamic disks.

                      So can Span 16 disk, as 16 is limit with XS

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill
                        last edited by

                        We are all typing too damn fast.

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                        • ntoxicatorN
                          ntoxicator
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                          We're just SPANNING away. Full speed ahead!
                          bahaha... 😃

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            Time to break out the electric spanner!

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                            • scaleS
                              scale @ntoxicator
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                              @ntoxicator said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?:

                              @Scale computing nodes...... same limitations I presume?

                              Sorry for taking a week to see the mention. Thanks for thinking of us.

                              No, the limitation does not exist on the Scale HC3 clusters. We do not have artificial size limitations. We have tested VMs much larger than 2TB without issue.

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