My understanding is that Openfiler can take all of your storage. What you are seeing I think are statements for legacy OS's that will not be able to take over 2TB, like windows in most modes.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Stranberg Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OF-users] System spec and OF research - 3ware 9650e tyan 2892 16500GB sata drives - 2GB memory All, Continuing my OF research, are there any known limittations with volme sizes or physical disk sizes/numbers? We are reviewing a system with 16 500GB sata drives, a 3ware 9650E controller card http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/9650SE_DS_101106.pdf , and a dual opteron 270 system with 2gig of memory tyan s2892 MB. I intend on striping 10 of these drives with raid 10 for VMware and the other 6 with raid 6 for disk to disk backups, which sould provide around 2.5TB of storage for use in vmware and 2.5TB for disk to disk backups. I have read that the card will present 1 2tb disk and one 500GB disk to the OS in this situation where a single device is over 2TB, and then I will chop those up into some smaller volumes as needed. Anyone have experience with a similar set up, any known issues with the raid card or MB and OF, also any limitations I may hit with the amount of storage I am looking at? Also how does OF use system memory, will it rely on my Raid Card cache primariy or do I need to stack in a lot of memroy for best performace? Thanks for any advice or related experiences. -Aaron
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