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"..
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
TVAR Solutions, A Wells Landers Group Company
VMware Communities User Moderator
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
TVAR Solutions, A Wells Landers Group Company
VMware Communities User Moderator
