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Windows Server 8 VHDX disk format supports up to 16 TB

The screen shot points to a past article on VMware VMFS-5.

Supposedly, 3.0 is going to add the ability to do VMware-esque live storage migrations. Better yet, it'll allow you to do that without requiring any shared storage between the hosts - something VMware doesn't do yet.

I still plan to withhold my applause until I can see how it performs for myself. Anybody actually created a 3TB drive and performed a migration yet?

Just last week I used a Drobo that held 4 TB for a OS migration. We did about 250 laptops and under 5 Desktops. All the info stored on each Device was transfered to the drobo then Win 7 imaged then the old info placed back on the Device we ran out of disk space in 7 days. A depote server was used I belive in this formate

Rick is writing as if space is unlimited and you can have 16TB whenever you need. Unfortunately the first requirement is that you have such a large physical space in place.

I am currently working on a project where it would have been nice to be able to go past the 2TB VHD limit. Although as physical storage expands exponentially I am sure at some point in my career 16TB won???t be enough!