I need to create a 6TB RAID10 array for one of our applications. On our server, the Dell R515, we have (6) 2TB drives configured in RAID10.
I know that VMWare only suppors 2TB per LUN. I'm wondering if there's a way to directly pass the 6TB array from the H200 into the host OS? Is the H200 able to do this?
Best Answer
Not using .vmdk's or RDMs no. But you could carve it into 3 x 2GB and RAID0/LVM them inside the VM, messy but it works. The only way to get access to a LUN larger than 2TB directly is by adding another controller, connecting this array to it and using passthrough/VT-d to make the VM have full access to the controller and array - it's flakey and borderline experimental too. You could also move the array to another machine, share it as an iSCSI block LUN and mount that inside the VM.