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Datastore size is smaller than virtual disk

Just deployed a fresh installation of ESXI 4.1 rev3 on a new Dell PE R520 server with 4 1gb disks configured in a single RAID5 array.  When I log in with vSphere and go to Configuration>Storage it shows the data store being just 740gb.  However when I go to Storage Adapters and select the vmhba it shows the full 2.73tb of the RAID array that I need to use.  Nowhere did I choose 740gb for the size of the datastore so I'm not sure how it was brought to this size.  If I try deleting and recreating it 740gb is the maximum I can create.

What am I doing wrong and how can I create a datastore that is using all 2.73tb?  Screen captures are attached.

thanks in advance,

Ben

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mcowger
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ESXi 4 doesn't support LUNs > 2TB.  Any increment over a multiple of 2TB is what you will see (e.g. 2.73 TB - 2 TB = .73 TB ~= 740 GB you see).

But the real question is why are you installing a 3 year old version of the hypervisor?

--Matt VCDX #52 blog.cowger.us

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Hi,

First, ESXi does not support beyond 2Tb. For having only 730GB of datastore, it could be because of block size you are using.

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ESXi 4 doesn't support LUNs > 2TB.  Any increment over a multiple of 2TB is what you will see (e.g. 2.73 TB - 2 TB = .73 TB ~= 740 GB you see).

But the real question is why are you installing a 3 year old version of the hypervisor?

--Matt VCDX #52 blog.cowger.us
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ah, makes sense, thank you.

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