I have a dell poweredge 2900 with a 12 tb raid 5. I installed esxi ok. however it is seeing the 12 tb but when i try to use it it says only 768 mgs are available. i think the size limit is 2 tb for esx and esxi. i was hoping to have esxi build a datastore on this raid to the 2 tb limit. ideally i wanted several 2tb partitions on this raid. is there any hope here. what is my options to use this server. Im a fairly new on this product and would apreciate some directions on how to make esxi work with this 12 tb raid array.
ESX/ESXi VMFS datastore LUNs need to be no larger than 2TB-512B in size... You'll want to use the RAID configuration tools (bios level usually) to carve up the storage to be within those parameters.
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Create multiple RAID Volume Groups using the PERC RAID controller configuration utility (Ctrl+R at bootup). Size the Volume Groups just under 2TB and you should be fine. Use the first 2TB Volume Group to install vSphere and you should have a significant amount leftover for your first datastore. Each Volume Group will be a RAID group so design around the number of physical disks you have.
ESX/ESXi VMFS datastore LUNs need to be no larger than 2TB-512B in size... You'll want to use the RAID configuration tools (bios level usually) to carve up the storage to be within those parameters.
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