Getting ESX to recognize large arrays
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Recently I have been migrating my home virtual server and lab environment from Hyper-V to VMWare ESXi 4.0. In doing this I found that ESXi has a problem recognizing all of the space on my Dell PERC5 RAID array. I’m not sure if this is a bug, or just bizarre behavior between the two, but after several days of googling and checking forums I was unable to find a solution. After troubleshooting the problem a little further, I’ve come up with a workaround. (more…)