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I forgot I asked a similar questions on another section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: Access SMB Storage using esxi host and manage with MS... See more...
I forgot I asked a similar questions on another section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: Access SMB Storage using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008 Below is what I wrote on the link above: So as it turns out, there seems to be something wrong with vClient when Adding a Hard Disk (Virtual Disk) to a VM of size larger than 4TB. The article VMware KB: Value out of range error message when adding disks larger than 4TB in vSphere Client describes that if you come across this problem, to add the hard disk via vSphere CLI, Power CLI or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creating the hard disk, adding it to the VM (size of hard disk is 5.45TB) and when I would get the error about the DiskCapControl out of range, I would just click OK and then finalizing the creating of the hard disk on the VM. Once the process is done, I selected the VM and noticed that it did in fact added a new hard disk of size 5.45TB even though it complained about it. I fired up the VM with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new drive on windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Seems like vClient needs to be updated by VMware and fix this bug, if it is a bug which I think so. Thank you for the help vervoort!
So as it turns out, there seems to be something wrong with vClient when Adding a Hard Disk (Virtual Disk) to a VM of size larger than 4TB. The article VMware KB: Value out of range error message ... See more...
So as it turns out, there seems to be something wrong with vClient when Adding a Hard Disk (Virtual Disk) to a VM of size larger than 4TB. The article VMware KB: Value out of range error message when adding disks larger than 4TB in vSphere Client describes that if you come across this problem, to add the hard disk via vSphere CLI, Power CLI or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creating the hard disk, adding it to the VM (size of hard disk is 5.45TB) and when I would get the error about the DiskCapControl out of range, I would just click OK and then finalizing the creating of the hard disk on the VM. Once the process is done, I selected the VM and noticed that it did in fact added a new hard disk of size 5.45TB even though it complained about it. I fired up the VM with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new drive on windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Seems like vClient needs to be updated by VMware and fix this bug, if it is a bug which I think so. Thank you for the help vervoort!
Hey Mattias, I was looking at the list, but I can't seem to find a SATA raid controller. All I can see are SAS controllers. Either I'm blind or something, but I can't find a sata raid controller.... See more...
Hey Mattias, I was looking at the list, but I can't seem to find a SATA raid controller. All I can see are SAS controllers. Either I'm blind or something, but I can't find a sata raid controller. Do you know of one that you can recommend? Thanks.
Unfortunately for me you all are correct. I did read another forum somewhere about BIOS raids being fake/software raids, but I just couldn't understand how it could be a software raid. When I hea... See more...
Unfortunately for me you all are correct. I did read another forum somewhere about BIOS raids being fake/software raids, but I just couldn't understand how it could be a software raid. When I hear software raid I'm thinking its done thru the operating system. Anyways, I guess either I just use the hard drives as they are or buy a sata raid controller. Thank you all for your contributions. It's always great to get some input on a matter from others who have already gone thru something similar.
Ok, I have attempted the suggestions posted on the link and none has worked. I have tried both Intel and Adaptec embedded controllers and ESXi just doesn't recognize the raid configuration. It is... See more...
Ok, I have attempted the suggestions posted on the link and none has worked. I have tried both Intel and Adaptec embedded controllers and ESXi just doesn't recognize the raid configuration. It is too bad that it just doesn't It's sad to see that VMware just doesn't put a lot of effort in supporting hardware like Microsoft does. I can pop a Windows Server 2012 CD and it recognizes the raid configuration without any hassles. Too frustrating! Maybe MS Hyper-V is going to be the way I'll have to setup my home cloud. I'm still open to any other suggestions if anyone has any.
Thanks for the link. I'm going to attempt some of the suggestions on the thread. The only thing that worries me is that the thread is from 2009 and the users where using ESX 3 not ESXI 5.5. We'll... See more...
Thanks for the link. I'm going to attempt some of the suggestions on the thread. The only thing that worries me is that the thread is from 2009 and the users where using ESX 3 not ESXI 5.5. We'll see what happens when I get home and attempt some of the settings in the BIOS. I will post any results later. Worse case scenario is to just load all the hard drives and set up each hard drive as a datastore
Hi, I have a supermicro X7DAL-E r1.1b motherboard that has built-in Intel and Adaptec sata raid controllers. To enable the raid controllers, I go into the BIOS and enable the raid configuration f... See more...
Hi, I have a supermicro X7DAL-E r1.1b motherboard that has built-in Intel and Adaptec sata raid controllers. To enable the raid controllers, I go into the BIOS and enable the raid configuration for either intel or adaptec. I have tried both raid controllers and created a raid 5 configuration by going thru each controller's bios. However, when I start going thru the installation process of ESXi 5.5 U2, I don't see one logical drive, all I see are the hard drives that I thought were configured as one logical drive in raid 5. I know I'm using an old motherboard that is not on the HCL list, but I just don't have the money to be spending on hardware. I really want to make it work if possible. I attempted to download ESXi 4 but it is no longer available . I'd figure I tried using an older version to see if it contains the drivers necessary to make it work and attempt to port those drivers into ESXI 5.5. I was wondering if anyone has actually gotten this similar problem with a supermicro board and if a workaround or solution was found in which ESXi 5 can recognize the raid configuration? If it can't be done, then it can't be done, it is what it is. I'll just deal with it or save up. Any suggestions would be appreciated it.
Hi there, so I am trying to create a hard disk or a Virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to setup the VM as a file server. The datastore is a Promise VTrak M610P and I have setup the vtrak ... See more...
Hi there, so I am trying to create a hard disk or a Virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to setup the VM as a file server. The datastore is a Promise VTrak M610P and I have setup the vtrak as a VMFS5 type with 5.46TB of space (4 drives 2TB each in raid 5). In the VM, I added a hard disk and selected the vtrak datastore and attempted to set the provisioned size at 5.46TB and type Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed, but I get a DiskCapControl error with some range value. I change the provisioned size to 4TB and it accepted the new hard disk. I can't find anything about the actual limit on creating hard disk in a VM. I am running a Supermicro X7DAL-E server with VMware ESXi 5.5 U2. Any ideas would be helpful. Thank you.
Hi Vervoort, Thank you for the reply. So the storage unit is a Promise VTrak M610P which connects to a SCIS controller PCI card. The server is a Supermicro X7DAL-E. Surprisingly, ESXI 5.5 wor... See more...
Hi Vervoort, Thank you for the reply. So the storage unit is a Promise VTrak M610P which connects to a SCIS controller PCI card. The server is a Supermicro X7DAL-E. Surprisingly, ESXI 5.5 works perfectly and recognizes the promise system, so I'm able to create a datastore based on the volume available in the storage device. The problem I'm having now is that I want to use all that space and have a VM running MS server 2012 and do file sharing. When I attempt to edit the settings in the VM and add a new Hard Disk and specify the total space available which is more than 5TB, I get an error DiskCapControl value. I then specified the space to be 4TB and it seems to work. So is there a maximum amount of space to allocate in a hard disk? Is this a proper way to create a virtual machine to provide file sharing services? Thank you in advance.
Hi there, I know the subject line may be confusing, but I just didn't know how to explain what I need in the subject line in such a short sentence. Anyways, I have a SMB storage device, a Prom... See more...
Hi there, I know the subject line may be confusing, but I just didn't know how to explain what I need in the subject line in such a short sentence. Anyways, I have a SMB storage device, a Promise VTrak M610P which is attached to a 1U HP server blade via dual Ultra 320 SCSI host interface channels. I cannot setup the VTrak as an NFS, the only way to access the logical drives is by connecting it to a server via the scsi channels and using the operating system to share the drive space as shared drives. I would like to use a server blade with dual ultra 320 SCSI host interface channels and connect the VTrak to that server blade. Then, I'd like to install ESXI 5.5 hypervisor OS to that server blade. What I would like to know is if the ESXI operating system will recognize the logical drives and if I create a virtual machine with MS server 2008 and see if the virtual machine detects the logical drives, so that I can share the drives? I hope I'm making sense and if I'm not, please let me know what doesn't make sense I will do the best to explain it better. Thank you Andy