I need to create a new storage volume on an older ESXI 5.5 U3 host running on Dell PowerEdge T430 with an H730 Perc. I have 4 x 2Tb drives that will be used for a RAID10 volume of 4Tb in size. Does this older version of ESXI have issues with 4Tb volumes? Plan is to update to 6.5 later this fall but I need the storage now.
Thanks for any input.
Ken
Hi Shepcon
Thanks for the reply and link. Looks like I'm fine with creating a 4Tb datastore with ESXI 5.5.
I presume with a larger datastore, I should use a larger block size of 4mb or 8mb when I create and not the default of 1mb.
Ken
VMFS5 and later use a unified block size of 1MB independent of the size. There's not need (actually not even an option) anymore to select block sizes as with VMFS3.
André