We have a ~24TB Datastore (a single LUN mapped via a DAS) which has a VMFS5 Datastore.
My understanding was with ESX 5.5 and VMFS5 you can have file sizes up to 62TB (as per this article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2058287) .
However, the properties of the datastore show the following:
Is there a configuration I am missing, is something wrong here?
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Resolved. When looking at the datastore through the vSphere Web Interface (my fault, I still prefer the old client) it correctly shows the 62TB max size limit. Potentially a hardcoded value in the old GUI given it's now deprecated.