Please excuse the newbie question but I'm completely confused why I can mount, format and use a 3TB drive using the vSphere client but the hardware spec says the maximum is 2TB - 512kb? Formatted drive shows 2.73TB available. ???
I really want to attach the drive directly so I can set up the drive to work with as a ZFS NAS store. But running through the vSphere client, it won't work because the NAS needs full control over the drive. So I have to set-up/format via the CLI. CLI won't format larger than 2TB.
Should have added:
ESXI 5.1
Intel Xeon E5506 Tower
18GB RAM