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Creating a file larger than 16TB fails on VMware

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.12.1P2 and later
  • NFS
  • VMware vSphere 8 / ESXi

Issue

  • Creating a VMDK file larger than 16TB  on a VMware datastore fails with error:

Failed to create virtual disk: The destination file system does not support large files (12).

  • Expanding an existing VMDK capacity over 16TB results:

The capacity exceeds the maximum virtual disk size for the datastore

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