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Larger File Support?
Been a ReadyNAS customer for years (not too active on the forum) and been generally very satisfied. :D
Now we have a new Pro 6 model with six 2TB drives and are going to use it with the VMWare Data Recovery feature (VM backup/snapshot solution from VMWAre for ESXi). Basically it works by having appliance(s) running on the ESXi host(s) managed by a plugin in the ESX Client. It all connects through vCenter. Anyway, we decided to use the Pro 6 via NFS for the backup data (add a virtual hard disk to the virtual appliance).
It is here I came upon the 2TB file-size limit since the virtual hard disk is just a big .vmdk file on the ReadyNAS. Is there any plan to increase this limit at some point?
Also wondering if you guys (gals?) would consider a switch to FreedBSD/Illumos/OpenIndiana at some point to gain support of ZFS for the underlying filesystem?
Thank you
Now we have a new Pro 6 model with six 2TB drives and are going to use it with the VMWare Data Recovery feature (VM backup/snapshot solution from VMWAre for ESXi). Basically it works by having appliance(s) running on the ESXi host(s) managed by a plugin in the ESX Client. It all connects through vCenter. Anyway, we decided to use the Pro 6 via NFS for the backup data (add a virtual hard disk to the virtual appliance).
It is here I came upon the 2TB file-size limit since the virtual hard disk is just a big .vmdk file on the ReadyNAS. Is there any plan to increase this limit at some point?
Also wondering if you guys (gals?) would consider a switch to FreedBSD/Illumos/OpenIndiana at some point to gain support of ZFS for the underlying filesystem?
Thank you
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- The 2TB filesize limit would be an issue with ESXi that would need to be addressed in an update to that. For now there is a workaround mentioned here you could try: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2006942
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