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  • 1.  VM hard disk size max. 2TB

    Posted Aug 03, 2022 01:44 PM

    Dear All,

    I'm facing a problem after applying a new NAS storage to my datacenter that I can't create a new hard disk to the VM greater than 2TB which is strange to me as before I was able to create any disk size. Please advise!

    NAS: WD DL4100 "32TB"

    ESXi version: 7.0.3

    vCenter version: 7.0.3.00600

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  • 2.  RE: VM hard disk size max. 2TB

    Posted Aug 03, 2022 04:08 PM

    Also, There is something strange that I tried to increase the VM's hard disk capacity from the ESXi and worked fine.

    So, Is this problem related to vCenter or there is something wrong ?

    Thanks in advance for your kind help.



  • 3.  RE: VM hard disk size max. 2TB

    Posted Aug 06, 2022 12:50 PM

    Anyone can help here ?



  • 4.  RE: VM hard disk size max. 2TB

    Posted May 08, 2023 07:41 AM

    Is an USB-disk?



  • 5.  RE: VM hard disk size max. 2TB

    Posted May 08, 2023 10:49 AM

    From what I gathered from an HPE article this should be a bug in the hostd service on the system.

    Restarting it (or rebooting your host(s)) should fix it. 

    See here for reference:

    HPE SimpliVity - Maximum virtual disk size for NFSv3 Datastore droppped from 62TB to 2TB on vCenter 7.0

    Another option could be that the backing Filesystem is EXT3 in that case it would also be unsupported to have files (and thus VMDKs) larger then 2TB

    Reference for that is:

    Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMware ESXi 5.5.x 6.0.x and 6.5.x (2058287) 

    To be honest, I think the first one ought to be the likeliest as you mentioned it being possible before. Though the second is feasible if the NAS is new and it may improperly be configured. 

     

    Edit: Dang. Replying to a year old topic.