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Hi All
I am trying to add a 7TB LUN into our ESXI 4.1 environment but after adding, the capacity shows as 1,023.75GB. So strange..Is it not allowed?
I thought the 8MB block size, 2TB limit is only applicable when i am trying to create a new Virtual Disk for VMs using the 7TB LUN datastore?
i am confused..am i doing it the wrong way?
thanks much in advance
I am trying to add a 7TB LUN into our ESXI 4.1 environment but after adding, the capacity shows as 1,023.75GB. So strange..Is it not allowed?
I thought the 8MB block size, 2TB limit is only applicable when i am trying to create a new Virtual Disk for VMs using the 7TB LUN datastore?
i am confused..am i doing it the wrong way?
thanks much in advance
VMware
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SG_IT
Yes, the maximum size of a LUN for VMware vSphere 4.x is 2TB-512 bytes. (VMFS-3)
If you want to use a 7TB LUN, this is supported in VMware vSphere 5.0, because it uses VMFS-5.
See here
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/new-vsphere-50-storage-features-part-1-vmfs-5.html
If you want to use a 7TB LUN, this is supported in VMware vSphere 5.0, because it uses VMFS-5.
See here
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/new-vsphere-50-storage-features-part-1-vmfs-5.html
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thanks for that!
its becos esxi 4.1 is using VMFS 3 type so maximum LUN size is 2TB.
if i want the 7TB LUN, i must upgrade to esxi 5? is that correct?
becos it uses VMFS 5 and the maximun LUN size is 64TB.