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Sized maxed

I have a critical server running on our poweredge r710 and ESX4.
The machine which has 450gb local disk, is provisioned to a 250gb disk for the virtual server. The remaining space is free. I just looked on the console and it shows that the maximum size is 256. When I login to the actual virtual server, we have 16gb free.

So my problem? I have 150gb of usable space on the local disk of the physical server, but the virtual disk is configured at 256 and is apparently maxed out. What can I do?

Danny McDaniel

your maximum file / virtual disk size is limited by the block size set on the datastore which defaults to 1mb and that limits you to 256 GB. Your only choices are to move the VM off and re-create the datastore with a larger block size or, ... create a 2nd disk and add in the volume under directory (not sure what OS your VM is).

I'm wondering, though, if you only have the one VM on this ESX host and if so, why??? If you're only going to run the single VM, why not just run it natively on the r710 so you get full access to it

shankshank

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If I move the VM off, what do you mean by recreating the datastore? How would I copy that file off? And you are saying to log on vsphere and recreating the localdisk with a block size? That won't hurt th eOS right?

We have other hosts, but their disk is on a NAS.

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