Volume Manager does not initialize a LUN greater than 2TB to the full capacity on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Cause
The "vxdisksetup" utility incorrectly sizes an EFI LUN that is greater than 2TB and does not utilize the full capacity of the LUN.
This issue occurs because the initialization process incorrectly calculates the size of the LUN.
Resolution
To resolve the issue, the LUN needs to be labeled using GPT format via the Linux parted command as below
1) # parted /dev/sdh
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Sample Output: Disk geometry for /dev/sdh: 0kB - 3999GB
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Issue/Introduction
Volume Manager does not initialize a LUN greater than 2TB to the full capacity on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is a problem if the LUN is initialized in Volume Manager is using the Simple, Sliced or the Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) format .
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