Datastore only Showing Half of Disk Space

[EBarton]

Hello,

I added two 1TB drives to the server. It is an HP Gen 9. The Smart Provisioning saw the two drives, and created a new RAID for them.

But VMWare only shows half as being available as a datastore.

The original six drives show up just fine.

ESXI version 6.0. Anybody have any ideas?

[a_p_]

The Smart Provisioning saw the two drives, and created a new RAID for them.

Assuming that the two 1TB drives are in a RAID 1 set, the 931GB is the expected available storage size.

André

[Alim786 · Accepted solution]

I think HP Intelligent Provisioning will configure it as a Mirrored volume so only 1 disk capacity will be available.

[vXav]

RAID 1 is a mirroring of disks, hence half the capacity.

[EBarton]

Thanks, everyone for your quick replies. I am going to see how to configure the "Smart Provisioning" so it doesn't mirror.