Hello all,
I have an ESXI 5.5 host which I've had up for a while (whitebox build) and I've recently replaced one of the internal hard drives due to failure (not raid, directly connected to the SATA controller). The new drive is EXACTLY the same as the one I had in it before, same build, same size etc... However ESXI seems to think its a 3GB hard drive, while its actually a 3TB hard drive. When I look at it through VSPHERE I can't do anything with it like detach it or format it or anything. Am I missing something ? It seems like I've done this before without any trouble and I can't really remember doing anything special I those instances . I simply want to format it as one 3TB partition, but can't figure out how. This is a standalone install of ESXI (the free version) so I don't have Vcentre or anything, but I do have VSPHERE client and VMware workstation to manage it as well as SSH access of course.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.