I'm having an issue with a local datastore on a lab server vSphere 5.5U2 installation. The server has 8 drives, 2 x 146GB and 6 x 500GB on P400 RAID controller. vSphere 5.5 is installed on the 2 RAID 0+1 drives and I have a RAID 5 array with 2.3TB of space. I cannot get the vSphere to add the 2.3TB local datastore? Is there a 2TB limit, or am I missing something? I've re-created the RAID array a few times with no change. I was considering adding openfiler on top of the vSphere install and presenting it as NAS or iSCSI. Thoughts? Thanks.
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