8GB SSD showing up as capacity 2.50gb?

[edgarcparra]

I installed ESXi 5.0 on an 8GB ssd. I also wanted to install a small 2GB virtual machine on that same datastore. However, It says I only have 1.92 GB free and the capacity is 2.50GB. I tried this also on another 8GB ssd (same model). Any ideas?

[proden20]

- Is it saying that the datastore is 2GB, or that your disk's capacity is 2GB?  What happens when you try to "Add Storage?" Does any free space show?

- Have you checked your SSD on the Compatibility Guide?

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san

- Does your drive have the latest firmware?

- Is vSphere recognizing it as an SSD device?

[vMario156]

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-instal...

Installing ESXi 5.0 requires a boot device that is a minimum of 1GB in size. When booting from a local disk or
SAN/iSCSI LUN, a 5.2GB disk is required to allow for the creation of the VMFS volume and a 4GB scratch
partition on the boot device. If a smaller disk or LUN is used, the installer will attempt to allocate a scratch
region on a separate local disk. If a local disk cannot be found the scratch partition, /scratch, will be located
on the ESXi host ramdisk, linked to /tmp/scratch. You can reconfigure /scratch to use a separate disk or LUN.
For best performance and memory optimization, VMware recommends that you do not leave /scratch on the
ESXi host ramdisk.

Regards,

Mario