This is an VMWare ESX limitation not the EMC Vnx. ESX lower than 5 will not 
support greater than 2tb luns even on Fibre Channel or direct attached disks. 
You should be able to present a greater than 2tb lun to a windows server 
without any issues. I have a VNX 5700 that presents a 20tb lun to a Windows 
2008 R2 server just fine. 
-Greg 


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: EMC VNXe oddity...

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can't create a partition greater than 1.999tb in iSCSI.

  1.999 TB outta be enough for anybody.

> Their support web site says that it's a limitation of the SCSI 2 
> protocol they're using, not a limitation of iSCSI, as such.

  Which is pretty retarded.  SCSI-2 was released in 1994 and is long since 
superseded.  They've restructured the entire standard since then.

  Too late to return this thing?

-- Ben

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