Saturday 1 March 2014

VMware Guest VM Disk size greater than 2TB

Recently we needed to give our client a VM and additional disk of around 7TB. Issue that we were facing was when adding a disk of 7TB we were getting following errors:

Hot-extend was invoked with size (*** sectors) > =2TB. Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is not supported. This disk extend operation failed: msg.disklib.INVAL

To resolve the issue power off the Virtual Machine and then retry the drive extend operation.

Or detach it from the Virtual machine it is connected to and then attach to a virtual machine that is powered off and perform the re-size operation.

Hope it solves the issue!.

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