:( the physical disk is too big. The maximum size allowed is 2TB

[drmaniac]

Hallo,

ich habe eine iSCSI HDD die ich als physikalische Platte zusätzlich in eine VMWare einbinden will.

Es ist also keine Startpartition oder so etwas.

VMWare workstation gibt als Fehler aus

"he physical disk is too big. The maximum size allowed is 2TB"

Version 8.

Ist das mit Version 9 anders? Kann ich da eine physikalische HDD größer als 2TB einbinden?

Die Beschränkung ist ganz schön unpraktisch

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I tryed to add a physical HDD (4TB iSCSI Devide) to my VMWare config.

Result is negativ with error message

"the physical disk is too big. The maximum size allowed is 2TB"

This HDD should not be the system disk with OS, its an additional drive.

Can VMWare Workstation 9 handle this problem?

Danke

[continuum]

Thats interesting - in both version 8 and 9 using virtual disks larger than 2Tb is possible

[elgreco81]

Hi,

Could it be a hardware version issue? If Workstation supports it, maybe the hardware version for the VM is for compatibility with legacy versions like 6...

Regards,

elgreco81

[drmaniac]

this is the harddisk,

its created with GUID Partition Table (GPT).

and Partition2 is Truecrypt formated

edit: interessting:if I choose individual partitions he told me a unknown 2TB partition

[continuum]

No - I just tried to reproduce it inside a nested VM using virtualhardware type 9.
I tried to add a 8Tb  physical disk to the VM and I get the same result.

[continuum]

Looks like using physical disks larger than 2 Tb is not supported/possible yet.

I also cant recommend to use virtual disks larger than 2 TB - that works but this disks are not too stable

[Olaf_van_der_Sp]

Does it?

Workstation 9 says: "The specified disk size is greater than the allowed size for this virtual disk. Please specify a size between 0.001 GB and 2040.0 GB. OK

[WoodyZ]

Olaf van der Spek wrote:

Does it?

Workstation 9 says: "The specified disk size is greater than the allowed size for this virtual disk. Please specify a size between 0.001 GB and 2040.0 GB. OK

A virtual disk greater then 2 TB cannot be created via the GUI and has to be done manually and is not supported however as Ulli already said. "I also cant recommend to use virtual disks larger than 2 TB - that works but this disks are not too stable"!

[Olaf_van_der_Sp]

In what way is this unstable? When will big disks be supported?

[WoodyZ]

Olaf van der Spek wrote: In what way is this unstable?

Ulli will have to answer that as I do not routinely use disks >2TB and he has.

When will big disks be supported?

If and when will have to be announced by VMware when they choose at the time they choose and not before.