Re: Windows 2003 Disk Limit
I know for a fact that W2K3 supports drives of that size, I have a Promise
iSCSI that is 5 TB +. The problem I had that was similar was a bug in the
array firmware that would only show a 2TB drive size. You don't mention how
you have it attached, is it to a Dell PERC card? If so make sure the RAID
card setup sees the entire drive. Also if you just purchased this from Dell
I would call them as their storage support is very good.
"Jason Li" <JasonLi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> we just bought a Dell Powervault Direct Attached Raid unit which holds 5TB
> in
> Raid 5 and expandable to 20tb I belive, but when I going to the disk
> manager
> in windows 2003 standard edition, it can only let me create a partition
> for
> 2tb. the rest is Unallocated and can't create a partition.
>
> I think I'm really massed up. Do I need Windows 2003 storage server
> edition
> in order to use all that space? The plan is also to expand the raid to
> 10-15tb in the future. It's only for archive purposes, so no perfomance
> needed.
>
> I'm new to this, can someone please point me a direction. I don't want to
> deal with SAN since all the equipments are already purchased.
>
> Thank you very much!
>[/color]
Re: Windows 2003 Disk Limit
The Max 2TB is the limitation of "Basic" Disks.
Try creating Dynamic disks , each Dynamic Disk should be of max 2TB. You
can create upto a total 32 disks(max 64 TB).
In your case create 5 disks (5 * 1TB) and stripe the dynamic disks, since
you are using RAID 5 you have to allocate one disk for parity. so
effectively you will have 4TB...
Manoj
"Jason Li" <JasonLi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B185AE35-33E9-4F08-9E68-9B2DDAA18B76@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> we just bought a Dell Powervault Direct Attached Raid unit which holds 5TB
> in
> Raid 5 and expandable to 20tb I belive, but when I going to the disk
> manager
> in windows 2003 standard edition, it can only let me create a partition
> for
> 2tb. the rest is Unallocated and can't create a partition.
>
> I think I'm really massed up. Do I need Windows 2003 storage server
> edition
> in order to use all that space? The plan is also to expand the raid to
> 10-15tb in the future. It's only for archive purposes, so no perfomance
> needed.
>
> I'm new to this, can someone please point me a direction. I don't want to
> deal with SAN since all the equipments are already purchased.
>
> Thank you very much!
>[/color]
Re: Windows 2003 Disk Limit
You can also use GPT disks (if you are using Win2k3SP1 or later) - they can
grow to 256TB.
Pat
"Manoj Rajagopalan" <manoj.rajagopalan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The Max 2TB is the limitation of "Basic" Disks.
> Try creating Dynamic disks , each Dynamic Disk should be of max 2TB. You
> can create upto a total 32 disks(max 64 TB).
> In your case create 5 disks (5 * 1TB) and stripe the dynamic disks, since
> you are using RAID 5 you have to allocate one disk for parity. so
> effectively you will have 4TB...
>
> Manoj
>
> "Jason Li" <JasonLi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B185AE35-33E9-4F08-9E68-9B2DDAA18B76@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> we just bought a Dell Powervault Direct Attached Raid unit which holds
>> 5TB in
>> Raid 5 and expandable to 20tb I belive, but when I going to the disk
>> manager
>> in windows 2003 standard edition, it can only let me create a partition
>> for
>> 2tb. the rest is Unallocated and can't create a partition.
>>
>> I think I'm really massed up. Do I need Windows 2003 storage server
>> edition
>> in order to use all that space? The plan is also to expand the raid to
>> 10-15tb in the future. It's only for archive purposes, so no perfomance
>> needed.
>>
>> I'm new to this, can someone please point me a direction. I don't want to
>> deal with SAN since all the equipments are already purchased.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]
