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This has got nothing to do with the Host or Hypervisor! OS partition!<br />
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Also make sure the VM is virtual machine version 10, and you add the disk from Web Client, because it's NOT supported from the OLD vSphere Legacy Client!
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This has got nothing to do with the Host or Hypervisor! OS partition!

Also make sure the VM is virtual machine version 10, and you add the disk from Web Client, because it's NOT supported from the OLD vSphere Legacy Client!

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I posted this on the windows side but I figured I would try it now on the VMware side because I am confused on what to do..<br />
I have a vm that has a data drive connected to a san that is 2TB in size. It is setup in windows as mbr.<br />
So I need to make the disk 3.5TB in size but cant do that with the mbr, since the limit is 2TB.<br />
So I was thinking of creating a new vm with server 2012 R2 because the old one has server 2008 32bit, and then create the new disk with gpt.<br />
But I don't know if I can remove the disk from the old vm and then attach them to the new vm but have the disk be gpt instead of mbr??
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I posted this on the windows side but I figured I would try it now on the VMware side because I am confused on what to do..
I have a vm that has a data drive connected to a san that is 2TB in size. It is setup in windows as mbr.
So I need to make the disk 3.5TB in size but cant do that with the mbr, since the limit is 2TB.
So I was thinking of creating a new vm with server 2012 R2 because the old one has server 2008 32bit, and then create the new disk with gpt.
But I don't know if I can remove the disk from the old vm and then attach them to the new vm but have the disk be gpt instead of mbr??

Need to convert mbr to gpt on a vmware server running  ESXi

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.