http://www.vcritical.com/2009/01/finding-thin-provisioned-virtual-disks-with-powershell/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:50:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.vcritical.com/2009/01/finding-thin-provisioned-virtual-disks-with-powershell/#comment-10817 ben.neise.co.uk » Thin Provisioning in ESX 3.5 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:27:38 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=514#comment-10817 [...] I soon discovered that we already used TP disks in a very limited way. One of the options in vCenter’s Clone to Template operation allows the creation of a compact template, and we had been using this to reduce the amount of space used by templates. Templates created in this manner use TP disks, and if you convert that template to a machine, the machine inherits the TP disk. However VMs deployed from the template are created with normal (thick) disks. If you’re curious to see if you’ve got any existing TP machines, Eric Gray wrote a PowerShell script to find existing thin provisioned disks. [...] [...] I soon discovered that we already used TP disks in a very limited way. One of the options in vCenter’s Clone to Template operation allows the creation of a compact template, and we had been using this to reduce the amount of space used by templates. Templates created in this manner use TP disks, and if you convert that template to a machine, the machine inherits the TP disk. However VMs deployed from the template are created with normal (thick) disks. If you’re curious to see if you’ve got any existing TP machines, Eric Gray wrote a PowerShell script to find existing thin provisioned disks. [...]

]]> http://www.vcritical.com/2009/01/finding-thin-provisioned-virtual-disks-with-powershell/#comment-263 Eric Gray Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:12:02 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=514#comment-263 Sven, thank you for the link -- good info on thin disks. Sven, thank you for the link — good info on thin disks.

]]> http://www.vcritical.com/2009/01/finding-thin-provisioned-virtual-disks-with-powershell/#comment-261 Sven Huisman Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:45:18 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=514#comment-261 Nice Powershell script. Here is a nice addition to your blogpost: http://virtualfuture.info/2008/12/vmware-esx-35-and-thinprovisioning/ Nice Powershell script. Here is a nice addition to your blogpost:
http://virtualfuture.info/2008/12/vmware-esx-35-and-thinprovisioning/

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