ESXi 5 shows a datastore with no free space but it's empty

[Fvenezian]

Hi all,

We have a HP P2000 FC storage and I did set up a new 2.4 Tb LUN and presented it to the ESXi cluster.

All the hosts can see it fine ( Capacity 2.18 Tb and Free Space 2.18 Tb ). See highlighted AS1DR_FR5_L13

The issue occurs when I add a new 2 TB virtual disk to one of the guests....

Then after creating the disk, the datastore is showing with 184.29 Gb free only but there is nothing in there.

I did delete the Volume and vDisk on the HP P2000 storage, created it again with different sizes but I'm having the same results.

Do you guys have any idea on what is going on ?

Cheers

Fabio

[memaad]

Hi,

Create virtual disk of less than 2TB, like 2TB-512b. Then check it out, since exact 2TB is not supported.

Regards

Mohammed

[Fvenezian]

Hi Mohammed, thanks for your replay.

Actually this was the first thing I tried. I created a 1.5 TB virtual disk just now but no luck.

[Josh26]

Is this ESXi 5.1 with latest patches?

I only ask because I have that exact SAN and haven't had this issue on the current version.

[Fvenezian]

Hi John

This is ESXi 5.0.0 623860. It should no be the issue. I was able to do the same operation to another vms and had no issues.

[memaad]

Hi,

So create new blank VM and then create vmdk of your size . Once VM  is created add this VMDK to existing vm ( Original VM ).

Regards

Mohammed

[admin]

Can you connect to the ESXi host directly using root credentials on vsphere client and check if you notice the same status....

[Fvenezian]

no, none of these worked.

Weird as it was working fine till three weeks ago and nothing got changed.

I will schedule an upgrade to 5.1 and see if I have better luck.

[rm3na]

Did you resolve this problem? I'm having the exact same issue... :S

[Fvenezian]

I was able to resolve after upgrading to ESX 5.1 and created a new and bigger LUN on the Storage.