topic Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

BP12210 — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:26:20 GMT

I have a DL165g7 with a P410/256 SA controller and a 6tb usable internal RAID-5 array. I have run into the limitation of MBR formatting but Windows cannot convert the disks to GPT via the GUI or diskpart.exe. The raid controller uses the only external accessible PCI-e slot so adding an external disk to boot off of is not an option open to me.

Is there a way to get this model to use more than 2tb of storage with just the internal disks and the p410 controller?

Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

wanhao — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:23:47 GMT

HI:

Some Windows OS do not support GPT,I don't know which OS you're running!

You can see this article "Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB" on Microsoft website,here's a link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408

Maybe you can try!

Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

BP12210 — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:40:48 GMT

Server OS is 2012. I have also tried 2008r2 and that also behaves similarily.

Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

anthony11 — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:40:59 GMT

Maybe reconfigure two logicaldisks on the SA array, one <2TB for MS-DOS to use and the rest in a larger logicaldisk for data?

Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

Casper42 — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:59:38 GMT

Boot devices cannot be GPT as far as I am aware without UEFI (replacement for BIOS).

So you need a smaller logical drive to boot from and then a large D: drive using GPT.

Re: DL165G7 and 6Tb array, cannot seem to use more than 2tb of storage

Jan Soska — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:41:49 GMT

Hello,

in smartarray bios - do you see your array normally = more than 2TB ?

Jan