ESX4 harddisk size questions

[leiw324]

Hello

1. Can ESX4 storage support over 2TB harddisk size?

2. I have hardware raid installed with 2TB x2 and partition to 450GB and 490GB, can ESX4 help me auto to partition them to storage1 and storag2?

Thanks !

[weinstein5]

1) no the largest datastore has to be less than 2 TB - 2 TB -512 B to be exact

2) No you will have to carve the RAID set up into partions before installing ESXi

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[leiw324]

What's 2 TB -512 B ?

And tried I can add the datastorage on Storage that configed in Raid controller !

Thanks !

[ThompsG]

2 Terabytes minus 512 bytes is the maximum extent size (LUN) that can be presented to an ESX 4 server.

Kind regards

[weinstein5]

as the other poster noted - 2 TB minus 512 B - so if you are able access the smaller partitions youo sould be good to go to create a VMFS datastore -

one thing I would make sure is that all the space is partitioned before installing VMs -

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[leiw324]

Are you mean it can't partition VMFS format in Configuartion > Storage ?