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Creating a file larger then 16TB fails on 9.12.1P2

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Applies to

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

Issue

Creating a large VMDK on a VMware datastore fails with error:

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

 

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