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alex1002
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6TB Virtual Disk ESXi 6.0 Windows 2012 R2

6TB Virtual Disk ESXi 6.0 Windows 2012 R2

I need help adding at 6Tb Virtual disk to  Windows 2012 R2 Guest.

The Datastore is 7.28Tb and works fine. When I try to add 6TB it says out of range.

Thank you

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rcporto
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You're using the vSphere WEB client ? If not, try it.

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Richardson Porto
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alex1002
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I tried that already. Doesnt work.

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RichardBush
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Is this a new datastore ? or formatted on a previous version ?

Can you confirm the vmfs version ? and block size

Rich

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alex1002
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Vmfs 5 1mb

On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, RichardBush <communities-emailer@vmware.com>

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rcporto
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Can you tell us the Hardware Version of your VM ?

Take a look at this KB article for some troubleshooting:

VMware KB: Value out of range error message when adding disks larger than 4TB in vSphere Client

VMware KB: Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMware ESXi 5.5

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Richardson Porto
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/richardsonporto
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