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January 15th, 2011 03:00

VM's cannot address more than 256GB RAM on VHD in VSphere 4

I am creating a VD in the MD300i, this presents itself in V Center, it is 1.36B,however when I try to connect an ESXI host it, it cannot use more than 256GB? I changed the block size to 8MB but it makes no difference. I have done this before and cannot seem to work out why it will not work now. I recently upgraded to ESXI 4.1 and Vspeher 4.1. I have an existing VMFS that I use for VM storage.
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    Posted January 18th, 2011 13:00

    You cant change the blocksize of an exisiting VMFS based Datastore. You have to remove it first and create a new VMFS. There you can select a new Blocksize with something like 8MB for creating up to 2TB large VMDKs on the FS.

    Attention: Move your VMs to another Datastore or backup them before you remove the DS.

    Regards
    Joerg