Cool, that was fast!! Was this something that was known and discussed in the forums or is this new. Also anything I/We can do to, avoid running into this issue? thanks!

ESX 5.x uses a Unifed block size of 1MB for VMFS 5.x volumes, so you cant change it. However VMFS 5.x uses a 8K sub-allocation size for I/O so as long as you underlying device uses blocks in 8K increments you are fine.

Ran into that one myself. after tying to delete a device with 20GB+ cache. Now using 3 lsfs devices with 8GB cache each, very good performance. Looking forward to testing the beta2. I want to use all the free mem on the system :) I guess this is too late for feature requests, but one feature that wi...

Hi Vitalii , Sorry for the delay in response. I uploaded two crash dump files and PM'ed you the links. fbifido, I have seen that thread before. In fact I ran into earlier and was only able to proceed with creation of a lsfs volume after setting the size to 64k. Dont think this crash is related to it...

Hi, I have installed v8 on a UCS C-Series Server with 9271-8i controller running Windows Server 2012 R2 with 48GB of RAM. Single RAID-6 Volume with 16 1-TB drives, 64KB strip size, write through with battery backup. Installed and have been running for a couple of weeks without any issues. Getting ve...