RAID 5 on HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[ryse_one]

I have three new HP servers ProLiant DL380p Gen8, when set the RAID 5 with 6 disk of 1 TB (4,55 TB of available space) the configuration finished successfully. after I installed VMWare ESXi 4.1.0, I go to the storage configuration and only recognizes available 561,41 GB of 4,55 TB.

regards!
ryse_one

P.S. This thread has been moved from Servers > General to ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL). - Hp forum Moderator

[Mark Matthews]

You cant have larger than a 2TB datastore on ESX3/4 (VMFS3) without adding multiple LUNs to extents.

ESX5 overcame this limitation...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/168071-2tb-datastore-limit-in-esxi

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=3371739

http://cknic.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/why-the-2tb-limit-in-esx-4-1/