VMware IBM 3650 Storage
Hi, I have an IBM 3650 M3, I installed VMware ESXi 4.1 upd1, but I can not see correctly the disks array.
I have 8 discs 1 TB SAS connected to the ServeRAID M5015 controller, with 7 drives in RAID5 + 1 hot spare. So I have a logical unit of about 6.5 Tb.
After install ESXi, I see one Datastore of 1.45 Tb, and if I try to add another datastore does not see any other disk present.
I have 8 discs 1 TB SAS connected to the ServeRAID M5015 controller, with 7 drives in RAID5 + 1 hot spare. So I have a logical unit of about 6.5 Tb.
After install ESXi, I see one Datastore of 1.45 Tb, and if I try to add another datastore does not see any other disk present.
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how do you explain this:?
what does that show?
what version of ESX?
how has the host bus adaptor/datastore been configured?
what version of ESX?
how has the host bus adaptor/datastore been configured?
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that is a datastore over the 2 Tb limit, i have other server (ver.3.5) configured by someone else with a datastore over the 2 Tb.
yes, there is no harm, in presenting 2TB-512byte datastores, and then using extents to expand/create one large datastore.
Extents are not usually recommended, unless you really need to use a large datastore.
Extents are not usually recommended, unless you really need to use a large datastore.
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Thanks you all
Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 4.1
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf
Carve up your array into smaller units below 2TB-512bytes