This falls under the heading of RTFM. I was trying to create a disk that was 400Gb in size on a VMWare server and I kept getting the error: [root@esx datastore2]# vmkfstools -c 400g disk1.vmdk Failed to create virtual disk: file too large 1769481 It turns out that this is well documented and I found the solution in the VMWare forums (although it’s...
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Whenever I loaded up the Virtual Infrastructure Client (VI client) and tried to look at the performance metric, the server would always tell me that “performance data is currently not available for this entity”. After a quick google, I found a potential solution on the VMWare forums which said to try a: service mgmt-vmware restart But this...
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