> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:sc...@ehrlichtronics.com]
>
> I just had a chance to get more involved with the hardware - it turns
> out we actually have a preconfigured RAID 6 setup with each drive
> showing 2 TB available.
>
> I am going to break the RAID and see capacity we can recover. Glad i
I just had a chance to get more involved with the hardware - it turns
out we actually have a preconfigured RAID 6 setup with each drive
showing 2 TB available.
I am going to break the RAID and see capacity we can recover. Glad it
is not in production, yet :-)
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Edw
> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:sc...@ehrlichtronics.com]
>
> The server does have a PERC, but it does not acknowledge any disks,
> indicating the four disks are truly independent.
>
> Having the latest ESXi version, what is the next step to having the
> system actually see each 4 TB drive at or ne
It is seeing the 4 TB disks as 1.8 TB each? Sounds like the
well-known 2TB limitation related to MBR partition tables and 512-byte
sectors. Does VMWare support 4096-byte sector format disks? Does
VMWare support GPT partition tables? Perhaps this may help:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micro
A server reboot and a closer look via vCenter client shows the machine
shipped with 5.5 U2.
It also does show what appears to be our four x 4 TB drives - they do
show in the machine's BIOS.
But, under vCenter client, when seeing the available disks to use, it
lists the 4 x 4 TB disks at 1.8 TB ea
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
>
> I am new to VMWare Datastores. Previous positions have already had a
> vCenter system built and enterprise-storage ready.
>
> We just installed a new Dell R520 PowerEdge server with 4 x 4 TB SAS
I am new to VMWare Datastores. Previous positions have already had a
vCenter system built and enterprise-storage ready.
We just installed a new Dell R520 PowerEdge server with 4 x 4 TB SAS
drives, vCenter 5.5.0 preinstalled, and a 2 TB boot disk.
Do we need to create a PERC RAID set with the 4
