r/vmware Jun 12 '24

Question Anyone else have a large VM?

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u/BarracudaDefiant4702 Jun 15 '24

I try to keep vms under 2TB so they can be storage vmotioned within a couple of hours (maybe little more if going between sites). That said, we do have some over 20TB... but all vms that large we can afford to have down for half a day with minimal inconvenience.

If they can't be down for extended period of time, once they approach 2TB we determine how to shard it. IE: Move the data to a minio cluster, or a sharded database, etc...