Quantcast
Channel: VMware Communities : All Content - All Communities
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 175326

Windows File Server VM is seeing more disk than what ESXi 5.5.0 has provisioned. Bug or am I missing something?

$
0
0

Hi all, I'm hoping someone could provide some insight or perhaps an explanation as to what is going on:

 

I am running into an interesting issue with a VM with 3x thin provisioned 2TB vmdk's.  In the attached word document, is a screenshot.

What I'm seeing on within the Windows Server 2012 is 2 disks: 1 with 6TB of disk allocated and 1 with 4TB of disk.  How could this be possible?  The math doesn't add up + the disk count doesn't match either.  I don't see any indication of disk-spanning so I'm not sure how the 4TB and 6TB disk is being provisioned.

 

The issue is we are running Veeam B&R and we want to split the backup jobs up by disk -- since we want to enable encryption of the 6TB volume and no encryption on the 4TB.  How Veeam splits them up is by SCSI DISK 0:0, 0:1, 0:2 etc.  so we need to find out for certain which disk is assigned to each volume on the Windows Server.

 

Environment:

2-host ESXi 5.5.0, build 3248547

Direct attach SAS storage to PowerVault MD3220

VM in question is a Windows Server 2012 R2 file server. Bitlocker enabled on 1 disk


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 175326

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>