Hello all!
This is my setup:
HP ProLiant ML350 G5
- 2x XEON E5345 quadcore
- 12GB RAM
- integrated Smart Array E200i connected to single 250GB SATA disk
- Smart Array P400/512MB connected to two 2TB SATA disks in RAID0 (4TB logical array) (please no comments about RAID0, it's for testing only!)
- LSI 3041X-R PCI-X SAS Controller (nothing connected at the moment)
- vSphere 5.0 starting from USB flash drive)
The server is on the HCL for vSphere 5.
My problem:
In vSphere Client, the 250GB hard disk connected to the E200I controller is recognized correctly, and I can create a VMFS5 datastore without any problems. However, the 4TB array only shows up as a 512byte device, and I can't create a datastore on it.
I also deleted the 4TB RAID0 array and created two 2TB JBOD arrays (one per disk). Now the first one shows up as 1.82TB disk, but the second one as 0.00byte.
Just to add, that the setup worked fine with MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 which had no problems recognizing the 4TB RAID0 array out of the box.
So why is that? I thought that vSphere 5 was supposed to be finally able to handle LUNs >2TB, so shouldn't I be able to see the full capacity of both disks in vSphere Client andto create a datastore on it? And what can I do to rectify the situation?
BTW: does anyone know when the HP and Dell editions of vSphere 5 will be available for download?
Thanks,
Ben