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Tag Archives: vmdk
VMDK growth patterns (VMFS3 / 5)
I got curious about block sizes and how thin provisioned .vmdks and snapshot .vmdks grow, especially now that VMFS5 uses a 1MB “unified” block size. I came up with the following table: VMDK File growth patterns VMFS3 ESXi 4.1………Thin Provision…..Snapshots … Continue reading
Are you thin, thick or just lazy?
vSphere 5 is almost upon us and I’ll try to start throwing out nuggets (now that I’ve learned the Beta NDA is over). One of my favorite tidbits is the new way to create hard drives (VMDKs) for virtual machines. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged performance, storage, vmdk, vSphere5 7 Comments
Moving VMDK files
If you don’t have vSphere installed, or don’t have Storage vMotion and want to move vCenter itself there are several ways, the “vmkfstools” from the commandline, V2V with VMware Converter or another P2V tool, or by using the vSphere client’s … Continue reading