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Thanks....the deafault 1.27 TB datastore was there already. No, i dont need that big of a datastore. i will try and see if i can create small logical drives from the RAID group.
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Thanks....the deafault 1.27 TB datastore was there already. No, i dont need that big of a datastore. i will try and see if i can create small logical drives from the RAID group.

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Please confirm if you trying to increase the size of the 1.27TB VMFS volume.
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Please confirm if you trying to increase the size of the 1.27TB VMFS volume.

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I have an issue with one of my server i am installing ESXI 4.1<br />
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The server has 5x900GB disk on a RAID5 which means i have 3.4TB space.<br />
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I installed ESXi on a separate disk, and when login to vsphere client, i see only 1.27TB data store. i cannot add rest of the space. why is this?<br />
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attaching a screenshot of the disk. any help is appreciated!<br />
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I have an issue with one of my server i am installing ESXI 4.1

The server has 5x900GB disk on a RAID5 which means i have 3.4TB space.

I installed ESXi on a separate disk, and when login to vsphere client, i see only 1.27TB data store. i cannot add rest of the space. why is this?

attaching a screenshot of the disk. any help is appreciated!

VMWARE ESXi Storage Issue

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.