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Confirm that 2TB is the max limit for a VMFS volume. You can add 32 Extents to that to get a maximum size of 64TB ... but don't recommend the extent route.
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Confirm that 2TB is the max limit for a VMFS volume. You can add 32 Extents to that to get a maximum size of 64TB ... but don't recommend the extent route.

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Thank you for your time and effort.
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Experts,<br />
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I have an HP ML350 G5 that I have been running an ESX 3.5 lab on for quite some time. Previously I had 3 X 500GB SATA drives configured for VMs. &nbsp;I decided I wanted to rebuild the server and increase my drive space. Here is the current DAS RAID configurations on the server:<br />
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2 X 500GB SATA disks configured for RAID 1<br />
4 X 1TB SATA disks configured for RAID 5<br />
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The server acknowledges that there are two logical drives, one for each array. However, during ESX install the RAID 5 array is nowhere to be found. Are the drives too large for some reason? Am I missing something in the setup?<br />
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Thank you in advance.
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Experts,

I have an HP ML350 G5 that I have been running an ESX 3.5 lab on for quite some time. Previously I had 3 X 500GB SATA drives configured for VMs.  I decided I wanted to rebuild the server and increase my drive space. Here is the current DAS RAID configurations on the server:

2 X 500GB SATA disks configured for RAID 1
4 X 1TB SATA disks configured for RAID 5

The server acknowledges that there are two logical drives, one for each array. However, during ESX install the RAID 5 array is nowhere to be found. Are the drives too large for some reason? Am I missing something in the setup?

Thank you in advance.

ESX install does not show 3TB RAID 5 Array

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.