Maximum partition size MSA1000

[SjrH]

Is it possible to extend the partition size beyond 2TB?

We currently have an MSA1000 with two boxes of 300 GB disks giving just over 6 TB of capacity, but are limited to creating just 2 TB partitions.

This is not too bad, but one of the volumes is now approaching 2 TB (again), and splitting data again is not preferable as our drive mappings will get messy!

I know Windows can support partitions up to 256 TB, but that is only with dynamics disks which is not an option as this is a clustered fileserver and clustering does not support dynamic disks, only basic.



[small]have you turned it off and on again?[/small]

 

[TheLad]

Why not utilise DFS? Then you can split the data up and not have to bother with extra drive mappings?

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[SjrH]

DFS was one solution we looked at, but a better one would be SiS to eliminate duplicate files. That way we would reduce the amount of used storage by 820 GB.

Sadly, nowadays, Microsoft only sell Windows Storage server to OEM's for preinstallation on NAS devices which is no good for us having spent thousands on the fiber attached array!

[small]have you turned it off and on again?[/small]

 

[xmsre]

GPT partitions can be larger than 2TB. You'll need to apply MSKB 919117 to use GPT disks in a Windows 2003 cluster.