Greater than 4 volumes on Windows components

[tmart]

I don't know if I'm asking for an enhancement to AppLogic, to Xen or to ancient Microsoft design issues, but will it ever be possible to allow more than 4 volumes on Windows components; and if so, when will that be? The number "4" suggests to me that these are treated as primary and extended partitions of a single (virtual) drive.

[PeterNic]

Tim,

No, these are 4 separate devices, each with its own partition table. The limit is based in Xen's HVM support (likely in the emulation of the IDE controller); I don't know if there are any plans there to increase that limit.

While it may be possible to create multiple partitions on a volume, I would not recommend it (e.g., if you try to resize the volume, what will resize).

(One crazy way to get more volumes is to use the iSCSI initiator that is (should be) part of Windows 2003 Server, and connect to one or more appliances that are iSCSI targets each)

Regards,

-- Peter