Hello:
Previously I had ESXi 4.0 running just fine on a machine which had two SATA drives:
SATA0 = WD 80Gb drive - DATATSTORE0 (ESXi was installed to this drive)
SATA1 = SAMGUNG 160Gbs Drive - DATASTORE1
I had one vm machine using 50Gbs on the SATA0 (datastore0) drive and another using 100GBs on datastore1 (samsung drive)
Yesterday, I got a new WD 1TB drive and I replaced the to 80GB drive with the 160GB drive and the 160GB drive with the 1TB. So my configuration now looks like:
SATA0 = SAMGUNG 160Gbs Drive - DATATSTORE0 (ESXi was installed to this drive)
SATA1= WD 1TB Drive - DATASTORE1
Obviously I had cleaned out the 160Gb drive previously and reinstalled ESXi on it.
When I load the VSphere Client and go to Configuration --> Storage it only showed me the 1TB drive (saying it has 931GBs free) 1as a datastore even though ESXi was in fact installed on the 160Gb drive (SATA0) it would not show it on the datastores list. So I went and clicked the "Add Storage link", this eventually found the 160GBs drive but once I finish adding it it says that it only has 69.50Gbs free! I know that ESXi does not take that much space since when I installed it on my 80GBs drive previously it was only taking up about 3Gbs or so. If I right click the newly added datastore and select properties the "datastore0 properties" window comes up. Under the "Extents" area of the window I can see my device and it says that it has a 144.17GB capacity. Also on the "Extent Device" part of the window it shows me all of the partitions on the drive, I can see the ESXi 7 partitions which seem to add up to about 5Gb and there is also another Primary partition labeled VMFS that takes 144.17GBs. But when I close this window and go back to Configuration --> Storage I still see only 69.50 GBs available on this datastore and on the "datastore details" pane I see an area that says 'Local ATA Disk(t10.ATA___SAMSUNG__HD160JJ) 144.17GBs' but below that it says 'Total Formatted Capacity 69.50GBs'
Since my datastore0 has 69.50GBs of free space and datastore1 has 931.25GBs free, it almost seems like ESXi does not allow the sum of both datastores to be over 1TB. Is this a known issue? or is that even the case?
As I mentioned earlier, I was using this 160GB drive previously in my last ESXi installation on the same machine and everything worked just fine. Why is it a problem now that I've introduced a new 1TB drive? I haven't changed anything on the BIOS so I am not sure why it is causing a problem now?
Thanks.
Previously I had ESXi 4.0 running just fine on a machine which had two SATA drives:
SATA0 = WD 80Gb drive - DATATSTORE0 (ESXi was installed to this drive)
SATA1 = SAMGUNG 160Gbs Drive - DATASTORE1
I had one vm machine using 50Gbs on the SATA0 (datastore0) drive and another using 100GBs on datastore1 (samsung drive)
Yesterday, I got a new WD 1TB drive and I replaced the to 80GB drive with the 160GB drive and the 160GB drive with the 1TB. So my configuration now looks like:
SATA0 = SAMGUNG 160Gbs Drive - DATATSTORE0 (ESXi was installed to this drive)
SATA1= WD 1TB Drive - DATASTORE1
Obviously I had cleaned out the 160Gb drive previously and reinstalled ESXi on it.
When I load the VSphere Client and go to Configuration --> Storage it only showed me the 1TB drive (saying it has 931GBs free) 1as a datastore even though ESXi was in fact installed on the 160Gb drive (SATA0) it would not show it on the datastores list. So I went and clicked the "Add Storage link", this eventually found the 160GBs drive but once I finish adding it it says that it only has 69.50Gbs free! I know that ESXi does not take that much space since when I installed it on my 80GBs drive previously it was only taking up about 3Gbs or so. If I right click the newly added datastore and select properties the "datastore0 properties" window comes up. Under the "Extents" area of the window I can see my device and it says that it has a 144.17GB capacity. Also on the "Extent Device" part of the window it shows me all of the partitions on the drive, I can see the ESXi 7 partitions which seem to add up to about 5Gb and there is also another Primary partition labeled VMFS that takes 144.17GBs. But when I close this window and go back to Configuration --> Storage I still see only 69.50 GBs available on this datastore and on the "datastore details" pane I see an area that says 'Local ATA Disk(t10.ATA___SAMSUNG__HD160JJ) 144.17GBs' but below that it says 'Total Formatted Capacity 69.50GBs'
Since my datastore0 has 69.50GBs of free space and datastore1 has 931.25GBs free, it almost seems like ESXi does not allow the sum of both datastores to be over 1TB. Is this a known issue? or is that even the case?
As I mentioned earlier, I was using this 160GB drive previously in my last ESXi installation on the same machine and everything worked just fine. Why is it a problem now that I've introduced a new 1TB drive? I haven't changed anything on the BIOS so I am not sure why it is causing a problem now?
Thanks.
