VMware Disk Provision Question
I have a virtual hard disk (not the C: drive) which was created for testing. It is way too big. It is Thick provisioned with lazy zeroed, is there anyway to shrink it? This topic first appeared in...
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Maybe this how-to can help? http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1998-resizing-a-vmdk-virtual-hdd-in-esx-esxi-4-x-without-vcenter-converter Honestly, you're probably best off doing a V2V using...
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In the future, use all thin provisioning unless you know a really good reason to do something else.
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Thanks all, since he didnt get far on the system i think i am just going to trash it. Edit: By he i mean the tech who set it up.
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Scott Alan Miller wrote: In the future, use all thin provisioning unless you know a really good reason to do something else. Just make sure that you keep an eye on disk usage if you thin provision...
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Only caveat with thin provisioning is that you need to make sure that you regularly monitor free disk space on your host(s). I see too many people thin-provision everything, then over-provision their...
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Scott Alan Miller wrote: True, monitoring the server is still required :) Yeah, sometimes people aren't aware of the potential risks of thin-provisioning, so I like to throw out the warning anyway :)
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For future reference, you can convert Thick to Thin with vmkfstools.http:/ Opens a new window/virtual-journeyman.john-refactored.com/reclaim-thin-provisioned-space-punchzero
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