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Home » sdelete

Converting VMware thin disks to thick using Inflate

31/03/2015 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

Just a quick note today, more of a reference than anything else. I had the requirement recently to convert a load of VMs that had thin VMDKs to thick provisioned, however the client was not licensed for live Storage vMotion. In an effort to minimise downtime I decided the best thing to do was use […]

Filed Under: Virtualisation Tagged With: provisioning, sdelete, vmdk, vmware

Zero free space using SDelete to shrink Thin Provisioned VMDK

05/09/2013 by Myles Gray 22 Comments

Some things should be simple, shrinking a thin provisioned virtual disk should be one of them, it’s not. N.B. This will just reduce the VMDK’s usage on the VMFS datastore NOT resize the “provisioned size” of a thin disk. To shrink a VMDK we can use an ESX command line tool “vmkfstools”, but first you […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure Tagged With: datastore, esxi, punchzero, sdelete, shell, vmdk, vmfs, vmware, vsphere

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