250GB limit?

[bluesherpa]

I'm trying to add a hard drive to one of my VMs and it won't let me exceed a 250GB capacity. Is that normal?

[William Lam]

This is due to VMFS block size choosen when formating your VMFS volume. By default it's set to 1MB which allows you to have a maximum file size of 256GB

Take a look at this page for more details: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/choosing-a-block-size-when-creating-vmfs-datastores/

You would need to re-create the VMFS volume to allow for larger file sizes

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[bluesherpa]

wow - I thought that was for individual files within vmfs - 8mb block size is huge

[bluesherpa]

Thanks for the help