Recently at a customer I upgraded a vSphere 5.0 cluster to 5.1. The update itself was quick and smooth, but I had a problem with HP StoreVirtual Failover manager, or FOM for short. The HP StoreVirtual FOM (or LeftHand, if you are nostalgic of the old name) is a small linux-based virtual machine, with the […]
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The “Real” maximum size of a VMDK file
What is the biggest size of a VMDK file? “2TB – 512 bytes” This has always been the official answer, and you would find this same answer in blogs, VMware communities, and other sources. The fact is: this answer is completely correct, but in a “real world environment” is wrong. No, I’m not going nuts, […]