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May 21, 2009
How to change an existing vmdk to thin provisioned on VMware ESXi?
If you need to convert a existing vmdk to thin provisioning on VMware ESXi you can do the following:
- Login via SSH
- Run the following command: vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/large-disk.vmdk -d thin /vmfs/volumes/thin-disk.vmdk
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May 21, 2009
How to thin-provision on a VMware ESXi
Are you wondering how you can create a virtual machine which only uses the amount of space that is actually being used in the Virtual Machine? You can do this by using thin provisioning, and following the following steps:
- First you need SSH access enabled on the server.
- Run the command: vmkfstools -c 10G -d thin /vmfs/volumes/test1.vmdk
- If you receive the error:
Failed to create virtual disk: The destination file system does not support large files (12).
Then make sure you run the create command in the datastore you have created already.
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