Hey guys-
I currently have 2 ESXi Hosts (version 4.1u3), 1 vCenter Server, and 1 EMC VNXe3300 SAN (20TB via iSCSI) that make up my virtual environment.
On the EMC VNXe, you create VMware Datastores (which have a limit of 2TB) and then connect these Datastores to the VMware ESXi Hosts. Once connected, you would continue the process by going through the Add Storage Wizard via VMware to connect the Storage Type of Disk/LUN via iSCSI. In the end, the LUN(s) would then be accessible by the Virtual Environment (found in Configuration>Storage>Datastores) as typically expected.
Due to the 2TB limit (both on the EMC, VMware Version, & VMFS3) on the Datastores, I am left with having multiple Datastores being created on both the EMC side and the VMware side of things (see attached photo). I know that this cannot be rectified via the EMC level, but I was wondering if there was anyway for me to join all of these Datastores together on the VMware side of things. This way instead of navigating to Configuration>Storage>Datastores and seeing 6 separate iSCSI Datastores, there would just be one (or multiple, but less than the existing) Datastore; this would then span across all of the actual Datastores that I would specify.
I do not know what the appropriate terminology is used to describe this, but I would hope that someone would be able to assist me with what I am looking to achieve. Or at the least, can you please steer me in the right direction. If this is not something that can be achieved or if it is recommended against, what would be other option(s) that would be recommend?
Thanks for the help.