Comments on: Large locally attached storage http://virtualfuture.info/2009/12/large-locally-attached-storage/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mervincm http://virtualfuture.info/2009/12/large-locally-attached-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-2904 mervincm Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:17:44 +0000 http://virtualfuture.info/?p=1593#comment-2904 tag for comments tag for comments

]]> By: mervincm http://virtualfuture.info/2009/12/large-locally-attached-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-2903 mervincm Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:16:46 +0000 http://virtualfuture.info/?p=1593#comment-2903 I saw something even wierder. I have a whitebox esxi 4.0 u1 server HP Smart array P400 4x Hitachi 2TB in raid 10 The P400 was perfectly happy to create a 3.7TB array, but in esxi it saw a 512 BYTE partition! If I made arrays under 2TB (raid 1 a pair or them or a single drive) it was perfectly happy. Running out of time before my vendor would exchange, I gave up and chose a workaround. My workaraound was to replace the 2TB disks with 1TB disks so that I could have a RAID 10 array of 4 disks and keep it under 2TB. I saw something even wierder.

I have a whitebox esxi 4.0 u1 server
HP Smart array P400
4x Hitachi 2TB in raid 10

The P400 was perfectly happy to create a 3.7TB array, but in esxi it saw a 512 BYTE partition! If I made arrays under 2TB (raid 1 a pair or them or a single drive) it was perfectly happy. Running out of time before my vendor would exchange, I gave up and chose a workaround. My workaraound was to replace the 2TB disks with 1TB disks so that I could have a RAID 10 array of 4 disks and keep it under 2TB.

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