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Thin Expansion (vSphere5)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

Here’s a curious one. The max size of a thin-provisioned VMDK on a VMFS5 datastore is 2TB. If you create a new VMDK you’re allowed to create it at 2048GB/2TB.   However when you go to expand an existing VMDK … Continue reading →

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