The specs on the server (PowerEdge T110) that we installed the 4TB hard drives into: http://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/products/t110_spec_sheet.pdf
Are there any instructions/tutorials on how this 4TB datastore can be created locally (from the command line) on a local ESXi 5.5 server?
This is all I could find here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2302383
and here: VMware KB: Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in vSphere 5.5
These are the ONLY documents that I could find concerning 4TB datastores, but neither seems to address the issue of HOW TO CREATE A NEW 4TB VMFS DATASTORE.
Is this something that can be done from the command line on the local server?
I would think that the server supports hard drives larger than 2TB, we just updated the BIOS. I might need to look into this further, just to make sure that the server does recognize the drives as 4TB drives.
Specs can be found here: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/t110_spec_pt.pdf
and here: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/T110SpecSheet.pdf
But as long as the server recognizes the 4TB drives (as 4TB?), then ESXi 5.5 should be able to view them as 4TB drives, and should be able to format them as a 4TB VMFS datastore, correct? This can be done with the vSphere Client (C# based), correct?
Thank-you,