ESX

[jdevroy]

I recently installed ESXi 4.0 on one of my dell poweredge servers, and am having some difficulties creating a datastore. I have a directly attached disk that VMWare is recognizing as 2.73 TB, but for some reason when i attempt to create a datastore out of it there is only one configuration with 745 GB of storage. If someone could please provide me with some assistance it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Troy_Clavell]

The maximum is 2TB minus 512B, therefore ESX is only seeing anything under that 2TB limit. You will have to make smaller LUNS

[jdevroy]

Thanks for the information, but is there a way for me to partition the disk. It is all local storage.

thanks

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

probably the best thing to do is start over and partition your disks smaller

[bulletprooffool]

ESX has a 2TB limit.

Also, you need to verify that the block size is 8MB to actually use a 2TB limit.

try partition your Storage into smaller chunks to determine if you can get full access.

Details on size limits in here:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_config_max.pdf

[AndreTheGiant]

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I'm the only that cannot see the message that arrived through email (in the last hours)?

I see (in the email) some post that I cannot see on the forum.

A couple missing messages could mean that the messages were deleted... but all?!

And the same is with new posted message seems that do not have reply... but only when I reply to them I can see also the other old posts.

I have the same problems also with different browsers.

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I do not know why this messages (that is a new thread) was posted here (for the moderator: please move to Virtual Lounge or other area),

Here the reason of the previous problem:

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/communities/2009/09/15/vmware-communities-site-error-report-sept...

If somebody has loose some points or messages can send a private message to .

Andre

[bulletprooffool]

Weird . . I have similar issues - have lost points too!

[jdevroy]

Thanks for the information guys, I ended up changing the disk configuration from four one TB drives in a raid five to a raid 10 configuration. This brought the file drive size down to 1.78 TB, I was then able to create the datastore.

Thanks everyone for your help.