![]() * Create the new logical volume, with a proper name:Ĭhange 3T to 4T or 5T (etc) to specify the size of your giant ~]# lvcreate -元T -n”LV-“$(uuidgen) VG_XenStorage-b55e5f09-8fef-4b5d-8dae-9410d630f205 Other threads suggested this might be the solution but it appears we’re locked down to VHD format: ![]() Has anyone successfully created a raw LV larger than 2TB and gotten it recognized by XS and exposed through to a VM as a VDI? Naming conventions? How-to’s? Fears of loss of accessibility with a future update? The maximum size of a single LV on a 64-bit machine using LVM2 is 8 Exabytes. So, since there is apparently no XenCenter-friendly solution for this, how has anyone else overcome it? All the above threads appear to dwindle off into non-resolution territory.ĢTB disks are ~$130 now. There is no “Click here for Microsoft™ compatible VHD format or click here for LVM/RAW format”. When I go to create some new storage to expose to a VM I can give it a name and a description and a size. We now have a physically imposed 2TB limit that apparently can’t be beaten when using that format. Then along comes Microsoft and their VHD format. This used Linux LVM and even if there was documentation from Citrix stating a 2TB max size, VDIs could easily be created larger than that. It appears that prior to XS5.5 raw LVs held VDIs. ![]() We’ve been researching this for a while and find multiple threads from other folks with similar problems: We started exposing VDIs to the VM, and quickly hit the 8-VDI-per-VM and 2TB per VDI limitations though. We like the idea of it being inside our virtualization infrastructure for high-availability and all the other advantages that buys us. We’re needing to store ~20 terabytes of data on a machine exposing it to various web servers via NFS. I googled and I found that for VDI greater than 2GB we have to use CLI. ![]() I was trying to create a Virtual Disk from a iSCSI Storage Repository on XenCenter but it gave me a error. ![]()
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