I have an ESXi 5 host with a VM which has a 2TB virtual disk on a 3TB physical hard disk (the datastore is the 3TB disk). Initially, I had moved a 320GB virtual disk from a failing physical disk, then created the 2TB virtual disk and eventually moved the important files from the 320GB virtual disk to the 2TB virtual disk. Today I deleted the 320GB virtual disk image file. Now, I would like to expand the 2TB virtual disk to fill the 3TB physical disk.
i have followed the instructions at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047. I am positive I have not used snapshots on this VM. The VM is powered off. When I try to go into the VM settings and expand the disk, it tells me the max size is 2048.00GB. It is currently 2TB, thin provisioned. What might be causing me to be unable to expand this disk?
After doing a little more digging into my datastore to find some obvious setting I've messed up, I noticed it says I'm using VMFS 5.58, and the maximum file size is 2.00TB. Is this a hard limit, or can I upgrade to a different VMFS to utilize a disk size over 2TB?
Message was edited by: CinciTech