Using existing hardware I have sitting around, I have setup a fairly low powered ESXi host for a file server and general personal lab.
This is on a Foxconn G33M02 motherboard, with 3TB Seagate drives connected to the onboard SATA controller, in ESXi 5.1.
I created the RDMs with vmkfstools -z, and then presented them to the Server 2012 guest. The guest sees the drives in device manager as it should, however in drive manager or diskpart the drives are listed as 0MB. Same 0MB issue in a Server 2008R2 guest. I can even access SMART on the drives - just no space.
Remove the drives from the windows guest and put them on an Ubuntu guest, and the drives are seen as 3TB and everything works like a champ. I have even tried partitioning and formatting the drives in Ubuntu and then moving them over to Windows, which resulted in the same 0MB size issue.
All the searching I've done results in a handful of folks seeing similar issues, but no resolutions. Any suggestions?
This is on a Foxconn G33M02 motherboard, with 3TB Seagate drives connected to the onboard SATA controller, in ESXi 5.1.
I created the RDMs with vmkfstools -z, and then presented them to the Server 2012 guest. The guest sees the drives in device manager as it should, however in drive manager or diskpart the drives are listed as 0MB. Same 0MB issue in a Server 2008R2 guest. I can even access SMART on the drives - just no space.
Remove the drives from the windows guest and put them on an Ubuntu guest, and the drives are seen as 3TB and everything works like a champ. I have even tried partitioning and formatting the drives in Ubuntu and then moving them over to Windows, which resulted in the same 0MB size issue.
All the searching I've done results in a handful of folks seeing similar issues, but no resolutions. Any suggestions?