XCP-ng Finally Supports Bigger Virtual Disks [YouTube Release]

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XCP-ng has finally the 2 TiB virtual disk cap. With the new QCOW2 beta, you can now create disks up to 16 TiB, take advantage of built-in compression, and get a more modern, flexible storage format. In this video, I’ll cover what’s changing under the hood, how to enable the beta.

Blog post announcing the beta
Understanding the storage stack in XCP-ng

Blog post covering storage history

Storage Design Video

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Chapters
00:00 XCP-ng Finally Supports Bigger Virtual Disks
01:25 Backup and Size Notes
02:03 How to test the beta
02:29 Expanding Drives and Converting an Existing VM
04:34 Storage Design Considerations

Yeah, I’m my opinion it’s better to create an iscsi LUN and attach it to the VM rather than have a giant virtual disk.

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