Max volume size - Cluster readiness

Hiya,

Is there a maximum volume size on VS2005 R2?

I am in the progress of migrating the file data to a VS Guest and trying to
figure out if it's better to create a disk per share or create 1 disk to
host all shares?I'm looking at approx 1.5 TB.

We are planning to eventually cluster the VS's so have the quorum and shared
area on our san. To add a scsi controller and disk in excess of 127GB i need
to add a scsi controller to the guest. Does this mean the guest can only
have 1 volume on the shared scsi controller?

I currently have a virtualized cluster and am quite happy with it, however
like yourself have found that I can only put one disk onto a shared scsi
controller. You can however have multiple shared scsi controllers with out
any negative effects.

I could be wrong but I believe that the issue is by design.


"Chris" <cdove@no.myrealbox.spam.com> wrote in message
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> Hiya,
>
> Is there a maximum volume size on VS2005 R2?
>
> I am in the progress of migrating the file data to a VS Guest and trying
> to figure out if it's better to create a disk per share or create 1 disk
> to host all shares?I'm looking at approx 1.5 TB.
>
> We are planning to eventually cluster the VS's so have the quorum and
> shared area on our san. To add a scsi controller and disk in excess of
> 127GB i need to add a scsi controller to the guest. Does this mean the
> guest can only have 1 volume on the shared scsi controller?
>
>
>

Cheers for the Reply Kieran :-)

"Kieran Jacobsen" <kieran@kjacobsen.net> wrote in message
news:655580D9-85A2-4D8E-864D-C731A58ECC65@microsoft.com...
>I currently have a virtualized cluster and am quite happy with it, however
>like yourself have found that I can only put one disk onto a shared scsi
>controller. You can however have multiple shared scsi controllers with out
>any negative effects.
>
> I could be wrong but I believe that the issue is by design.
>
>
> "Chris" <cdove@no.myrealbox.spam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23oidhRtBJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hiya,
>>
>> Is there a maximum volume size on VS2005 R2?
>>
>> I am in the progress of migrating the file data to a VS Guest and trying
>> to figure out if it's better to create a disk per share or create 1 disk
>> to host all shares?I'm looking at approx 1.5 TB.
>>
>> We are planning to eventually cluster the VS's so have the quorum and
>> shared area on our san. To add a scsi controller and disk in excess of
>> 127GB i need to add a scsi controller to the guest. Does this mean the
>> guest can only have 1 volume on the shared scsi controller?
>>
>>
>>
>