SCVMM 2012 R2 managing Scale Out Fileserver: Creates only MBR style disks limited at 2 TB?!

I'm new to managing scale out fileservers with SCVMM and so far have been unable to create a share within SCVMM on a scale out fileserver with a volume which is larger than 2 TB... It looks like SCVMM creates a virtual disk on my storage spaces pool (which
was also created by SCVMM) of lets say 10 TB but the volume it creates within this virtual disk is only 2 TB in size. I cannot extended it because the partition style is MBR. This leaves me wondering why would SCVMM create a 10 TB disk with a MBR partition?!
Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug?
If I manually create everything in Windows Server Manager then i have control over the partition type and hence can create a volume of 10 TB... But I Need SCVMM to manage this.

I just learned from someone a Microsoft that this is a bug in SMAPI. A bug will be filed and then fixed.

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