Error copying 400 GB VMDK file to VSAN 6.2

[jpowell_rci]

Hi All,

I have a folder on the VSAN datastore where I am trying to copy up a 400 GB VMDK file.  I have tried various ftp methods as well as the C++ and web based vSphere client to copy this file up.  The all stop copying after 247 Gig.

I used WinSCP to copy the last time so I could resume transfer (thinking it was timing out on copy or a network issue).  However, it seems like it is simply a hard stop.

My VSAN datastore has plenty of diskspace and executing 'df' on the terminal does not yield any space contention.  What else can I do to check?  This copy takes a long time and I really want to get it up on the datastore.  I don't want to reboot the esxi host I am using if possible.  Any ideas?

[Linjo]

A VSAN storage object can be maximum 255GB and then it needs to divide it it to several objects.

It seems that this is not working for you, not sure what the reason is but you should probably open a support-case to get this looked at.

// Linjo

[srodenburg]

You are both mistakenly treating a VSAN datastore as a normal, old fanioned file based datastore (NFS / VMFS). It is not. It's an object based system that works very different and you can't just SCP stuff in there. You must use the a vSphere (web) client Datastore browser to upload VMDK's etc. as the browser uses the API to communicate and transfer.

Again, VSAN Datastores are NOT normal datastores.

[zdickinson]

He does say that he used the "web based vSphere client", which should work.  That's what has me a bit perplexed, I was hoping to hear resolution.  Thank you, Zach.