iSCSI Volume in ESXi shows only 29,50 GB instead of 123GB

[prahn]

Hi!

I just setup a new Open-E server for our vSphere environment.

We use 3 machines with ESXi in version 4.1, I only connected the Open-E to one of them seperately via Cross-Cable. RAID works with an underlying 1 TB array. I created two VolGroups, one for NAS (800 GB) and the other one for iSCSI (123 GB). Connecting to the iSCSI from ESXi and creating a VMFS volume on it worked also smoothly, but I only get 29,5 GB to use. An I have no idea, where the other space is left...

What about the other 90 GB?
Does anyboday have an idea?

Hoping for help.

[To-M]

Try deleting the iSCSI volume once more then create another w/ Block IO. I have seen this before when a RAID is not completed on the building of the array but I think that in your case it is. But try once more by deleting the iSCSI volume.

[prahn]

Ok, great. I did what you suggested and it instantly worked.
Now, I have an iSCSI volume with Block I/O. I read here, that for using with ESXi it is suggested to use File I/O. Should I worry about that? Or try once more with a File I/O Volume?

[To-M]

we certified with Block IO we will remove this message in future releases.