**bleep**! really was hoping that you could expand the disk. Our VM people are reall questioning the spec of the 5K appliance, primarily the number of CPUs and the disk size. We are looking to have a cluster of 5 5K VM appliances ( 25K box horrendously expensive for academia) to get the license numbers up to the right ballpark for our wireless/wired network. In common with (probably) a lot of other sites, we have multiple ESX servers for the VMs with a NetApp storage appliance for the disk space used. Asking systems for 2.5Tb of storage for 5 clearpass servers did result in a squeak from the storage people.
Why do we need 500G ? is it just long term storage of historicsl stuff?
I guess we could just create another datastore on an nfs/iscsi device somewhere else and point the 2nd disk at that