VM Hard Disk Displayed as a Long Decimal

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information on troubleshooting virtual machine hard disks displayed as long decimals.

Symptoms:

• Backups are failing
• Unable to take a snapshot

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0

Resolution

This issue is resolved in vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3I (build number 20845200)

In addition to resolve the issue, change the size of the disk to the next whole number.

For e.g. if a hard disk size is showing 1.642847283747 round to 2.

Note: The size cannot be reduced but only increased.

 

To change the size of the disk using the Web Client:

1. Right-click the virtual machine in the inventory and click Edit Settings.
2. On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Hard disk to view the disk options.
3. Type a new value in the Provisioned Size text box.
4. Click OK.

Note: Disks larger than 2 TB cannot be hot-extended, you must shut down the VM first.