ISSUE: So adding a disk greater than 4TB to an existing virtual machine FAILS in the Vsphere desktop Client.....
QUESTION #1: What is the exact command or sequence of commands to add this exact Seagate 6TB drive (below) to an existing VM ????
Disk /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____ST6000DM0012D1XY17Z__________________________________Z4D1QFVQ: 4294967295 sectors, 4095M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): a6a9f48e-6274-4564-9aa0-509ce71bd8e0
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 11721045134
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 11721043967 10.9G 0700
t10.ATA_____ST6000DM0012D1XY17Z__________________________________Z4D1QFVQ vml.01000000002020202020202020202020205a34443151465651535436303030
t10.ATA_____ST6000DM0012D1XY17Z__________________________________Z4D1QFVQ:1 vml.01000000002020202020202020202020205a34443151465651535436303030:1
QUESTION #2: If I add the drive above as 4TB using the Vsphere desktop client GUI then what is the exact command or sequence of commands to GROW this 6TB drive to full capacity(5.46TB)???? [VMware KB: Adding space to an ESXi/ESX host virtual disk}
Using vSphere Client Version 6.0.0 build 3016447
Using VMware ESXi Version 6.0.0 build 3029758