Oh those little things in life that sometimes cost you a whole day before you figured out that you we’re doing it all wrong. This was one of those days where I got alerted by some colleagues about vCloud Director reporting “Disk space red threshold crossed.” When looking at the “Datastores” in the “Manage & […]
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Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning
Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described below. I have experimented with Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) thin provisioning since the beta release of vSphere 4.0 as I don’t have much storage space to spare. Before we get […]