More than 26 servers

• Jo Pattyn

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  January 20, 2016 at 3:24 am

  #324185

  Hello,

  We're planning to host 30 plus large windowsdatabaseservers on SAN-storage.

  The servers will be Hyper-V 2012 guests

  As far as websearching led me, the current setup would be

  Hyper-V 2012Host

  *VM Guest 1 (vhdx) on Volume Guid A

  *VM Guest 2 (vhdx) on Volume Guid B

  ...

  *VM Guest 27 (vhdx) on Volume Guid AA

  Current concerns:

  VHDX would be bigger than 2 TB (checkdisk?)

  Is there a maximum of volume guids per server?

  Any experience in managing VM's on volume guids

  Can you recommend a forum to discuss this?

• subramanian.esakkimuthu 40485

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  June 7, 2016 at 10:38 pm

  #1883774

  VHD is limited to 2TB

  VHDX is newer version it can support upto 64TB you can refer the following article

  http://hyper-v-backup.backupchain.com/hyper-v-vhd-or-vhdx-advantages-and-disadvantages/