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Re: vCenter Server 5.5 Getting Started (with 4TB VMFS datastores)

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VMware seems to recognize the drives as 3.6TB (4TB) drives.

 

If we try to create a datastore, it shows two 3.6TB (4TB) hard drives.

 

See here:  Screenshot 2014-01-04 17.55.51.png

 

But when we try to actually create the datastore, it shows the capacity as 3.6TB (4TB) but says that the maximum formatting/size is 2TB see here:

Screenshot 2014-01-04 18.05.18.png

 

So clearly the Server IS recognizing that the hard drives are 4TB drives (3.6TB).  VMWare seems to recognize the drives as 4TB (3.6TB) drives, and even shows that the maximum capacity of the drives is 3.6TB (4TB).  But why can't we create ONE large 4TB (3.6TB) datastore on each drive using VMFS-5?

 

We can try to create the 4TB (3.6TB) DataStores, but for some reason the vSphere Client puts a limitation of 2TB as the maximum file size when you try to format the drives as VMFS-5.

 

Is there any way to get around this 2TB maximum partition/file size?  Can't we just create one large 4TB partition, and format it as one large 4TB partition (using VMFS-5)?


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