Comments on: VMWare ESXi as a Media Server

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:26:39 +0000

Great article! Thanks for sharing. I’m doing something similar.

By: rahbk

rahbk — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:33:40 +0000

the 256gb size limit refers to max file size not drive size. you can have upto 2tb drives and can span up to 32 making the max datastore 64tb!

By: Wes Kroesbergen

Wes Kroesbergen — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:24:41 +0000

Yep, it’s working here.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:17:46 +0000

Can you confirm that the EXPI9301CT NIC is working with ESXi 4.x?

Best Regards,
Robert

By: Jeeva

Jeeva — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:19:08 +0000

Very good tutorial. It is useful.

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By: Wes Kroesbergen

Wes Kroesbergen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:02:42 +0000

You are correct Anton. However, in order to actually run that size of disk, you need to specify a larger block size for the disk format. I was referring to the default block size of 1MB, which limits the virtual disks to 256GB each.

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:45:43 +0000

“VMware ESXi only supports 256GB virtual disks”
This is NOT true, I have plenty of 1TB and even 1.5TB disks.