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You can create up to 32 extents to a datastore, for a max datastore of 64TB, but it's not a recommended VMware practice.<br />
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You can create up to 32 extents to a datastore, for a max datastore of 64TB, but it's not a recommended VMware practice.

~coolsport00

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I have a customer who is running a backup service for their clients and they currently have a couple of backup servers that they're thinking about migrating to ESXi because the hardware is outdated. Both of these servers are utilizing over 12TB of disk space on single volumes. Does ESXi support creating datastores of this size so I can migrate the physical boxes to VM's?<br />
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Any suggestions are welcome. If it's not a good idea or not possible let me know. Thanks.
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I have a customer who is running a backup service for their clients and they currently have a couple of backup servers that they're thinking about migrating to ESXi because the hardware is outdated. Both of these servers are utilizing over 12TB of disk space on single volumes. Does ESXi support creating datastores of this size so I can migrate the physical boxes to VM's?

Any suggestions are welcome. If it's not a good idea or not possible let me know. Thanks.

ESXi 4 Datastore Limitations

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.