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ESXi 5.1: Attach 4TB physical (raw) drives to a VM - possible?

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Hi all,

 

I'm new to ESXi but not to virtualization etc. So 7 hours of frustration after installing ESXi on my machine, it seems like I hit a brick wall. I need to attach 3x 4TB drives directly unto a guest.

I have tried everything Google furnished me with, to no avail. RDM is out (even if I turn off RDM filter as one of the KB articles said "unlocks" RDM onto local disks) - it's just greyed out.

Creating a vmdk with vmkfstools fails with "Failed to create virtual disk: The destination file system does not support large files (12)".

 

Note these are 4TB drives.

 

Is there really no way to do this?!

 

Thanks in advance!


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