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I have configured all disk running as RAID-5 (Total 956 Gb). When I create a disk storage, it only show 273.40GB available. Why the free space is so smaller ? Will there be a possibility that the RAID is not fully initialized (as I have reconfigure the RAID-5) and then install the VMware.

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

8/22/2022 - Mon
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Hi AXISHK,

It may be a basic question but, are all of those disks in the same size? And what is the size.
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They are all 146gb x 8 in raid5
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Paul Solovyovsky

It is showing 680GB already used by a vmware datastore..Legacy VMware Disk 683GB..
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Delete the legacy datastore and create a new datastore with available space or better yet re-install on flash drive or ssd and use the entire disk for the datastore
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This is a fresh installation. vm is run
in usb drive

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