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sharath1981
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‎04-18-2010 10:10 PM

DELL 710 with RAID 5 is showing all free hard disk space

Hi ,

I installed Vsphere in DELL 710 with RAID 5.installation was successfull.Total disks are 6.Each disk are 1TB.So total 6 TB ,after RAID5 it will be 4.55TB.But when am creating datastore then it is creating with 558.12GB. i did three time RAID configuration with 5 but am getting same problem.

Can some one help me.

Regards

Sharath

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MentholMoose
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‎04-18-2010 10:40 PM

A VMFS volume can be up to ~64TB, but each extent can only be ~2TB (with 32 extents per volume). So if you want one 4.5TB VMFS volume, you will need to split that array into partitions smaller than 2TB, and add each partition as an extent into the VMFS volume. The extent size can vary within a volume so you can do 2x 2TB partitions (technically should be 2TB - 512B) and 1x 500GB partition. Alternatively you could create several VMFS volumes.

See the Configuration Maximums document.

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