No, it's an EMC VNXe issue. It might even be specific to the VNXe 3100, but it's real. The management interface will not allow me to create a generic (iSCSI) storage LUN greater than 1.999tb.
See, for instance, this (which probably requires a login): https://community.emc.com/thread/129762 Kurt On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 13:48, Greg Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an VMWare ESX limitation not the EMC Vnx. ESX lower than 5 will not > support greater than 2tb luns even on Fibre Channel or direct attached disks. > You should be able to present a greater than 2tb lun to a windows server > without any issues. I have a VNX 5700 that presents a 20tb lun to a Windows > 2008 R2 server just fine. > -Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:37 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: EMC VNXe oddity... > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> We can't create a partition greater than 1.999tb in iSCSI. > > 1.999 TB outta be enough for anybody. > >> Their support web site says that it's a limitation of the SCSI 2 >> protocol they're using, not a limitation of iSCSI, as such. > > Which is pretty retarded. SCSI-2 was released in 1994 and is long since > superseded. They've restructured the entire standard since then. > > Too late to return this thing? > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
