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Clone image with over 500GB disk

I ma tring to Hot clone a vm with a 500GB RDM ...the destionation datastore is 1.5TB...

I however get the error message "File is larger than the maximum size supported by the destination datastore"..

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Chances are good that when the destination datastore was created, it was created with a "small" block size. If the block size is 1MB, then the maximum file size is 256GB, if the block size is 2MB, max file size is 512MB, and so on up to 8MB block size). This is the same problem you run into with FAT & ext3 with files over 2GB...

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Ken Cline VMware vExpert 2009 VMware Communities User Moderator Blogging at: http://KensVirtualReality.wordpress.com/

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Chances are good that when the destination datastore was created, it was created with a "small" block size. If the block size is 1MB, then the maximum file size is 256GB, if the block size is 2MB, max file size is 512MB, and so on up to 8MB block size). This is the same problem you run into with FAT & ext3 with files over 2GB...

Ken Cline

VMware vExpert 2009

Technical Director, Virtualization

Wells Landers

TVAR Solutions, A Wells Landers Group Company

VMware Communities User Moderator

Ken Cline VMware vExpert 2009 VMware Communities User Moderator Blogging at: http://KensVirtualReality.wordpress.com/
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