Hello Damien,   I'm sorry but I'm not quite sure what you are asking.     EQL supports up to a 15TB volume. GPT partition type supports that size. Depending on how your data is stored, you can use multiple volumes from inside the VM with RDMs.  (different drive letters, or mount points)   That would avoid using Dynamic disk and having to span volumes.  Each VM can have four Virtual SCSI adapters with 15 drives on each adapter.  Which is about 900TB per server. Instead of using RDMs, you can use the MS iSCSI initiator inside the guest to connect to EQL volumes. That removes that 900TB limit.   That would also allow you to use the Host Integration Toolkit for Microsoft.  Enhanced MPIO and consistent snapshot/replication.   Also add SCSI UNMAP support to W2K8 & R2. It's native in 2012 & R2.   Re:  10GB+, I presume you mean 10Gb Ethernet?   10GbE won't impact storage size much if you are only growing at 2TB per year.  There are benefits to 10GbE of course, if you're planning on going there anyway.     vVols work very much like RDMs.  So no real huge advantage there.    Questions I would have are what's the IO load you are currently seeing?  I.e. from SANHQ.  What's your current  EQL HW and capacity?   The newest member of the EQL family, the 6610 has up to 84 drives each and you can have 16 of them in a single group.  Which is a huge amount of space with 6TBG drives, 1.3PT of RAW capacity.   Regards,   Don  
Hi,  We are amassing a large amount of raw video and it's starting to grow at 2TB a year. Currently we have a virtual windows file server with an OS level RDM to the Equallogic volume.Is this the best way to continue toward 10GB+ or should we be thinking differently? vVols? Thanks Damien
Equallogic & large virtual file shares. 4TB+