I am having some issues getting a new ESXi 4.0 install to recognize my drives.
Hardware:
Intel BOXDQ77MK LGA 1155
i3 2105
32gb gskill ram
4x Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB
HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL
Drives are configured as 4 raid 5 arrays 1999.99 TB each.
I am running esxi off of a usb flash drive.
Version ESXi 4.0.0 Releasebuild-208167
This is the latest version supported by my raid controller.
Initially esxi sees my controller but no actual drives.
I booted off a spare drive into windows server 2k8 r2 and it can see all 4 arrays as 2TB drives. I formated them and used windows to test the drive integrity. I used HD Tune to benchmark and to do scan of every sector.
I formatted each of the drives as exfat and booted into esxi. It now sees the following:
~ # fdisk -lDisk /dev/disks/eui.00193c0100000000: 801.5 GB, 801569726464 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 97451 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/disks/eui.00193c0100000000p1 1 243153 1953122304 7 HPFS/NTFSDisk /dev/disks/eui.00193c0000000000: 801.5 GB, 801569726464 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 97451 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/disks/eui.00193c0000000000p1 1 243153 1953122304 7 HPFS/NTFSDisk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0: 8103 MB, 8103395328 bytes64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7728 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytesDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p1 5 900 917504 5 Extended/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p2 901 7728 6991872 83 Linux/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p5 5 254 255984 6 FAT16/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p6 255 504 255984 6 FAT16/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p7 505 614 112624 fc VMKcore/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0p8 615 900 292848 6 FAT16Partition table entries are not in disk order~ #
As you can sees 2 800gb drives. In vshpere it displays http://i.imgur.com/lpNqYH0.png 2x 2.73gb drives that it cannot write a datastore too due to size limitations. At one point, I am not sure what I did, I could create two datastores but they were only 700gb each.
So I come to you, what am I missing here?