Error Disk Cap Control: Value xxx is out of range when managing large disks?

When adding or editing a large disk (> 4TB) with the vSphere Client, the following message is displayed?

“Disk Cap Control: Value xxx is out of range (1048576,4398046511104)

disk cap control

No panic, this happens when you try to manage such a large disk at a virtual machine with hardware version 8 or later, not using the vSphere Web Client.

Solution is to use the vSphere Web Client when you want to edit or add disks larger than 4 TB to a virtual machine.

There is a VMware KB Article about this topic, too:
Value out of range error message when adding disks larger than 4TB in vSphere Client (2054952)

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