Ok I will give it a try. Regards Michael Knill
On 17/2/20, 10:13 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote: Michael, The way I read it, it looks like "Thin" could work. As long as AstLinux sees the max-size during initial-setup, formats partitions and such ... if ESXi can optimize the virtual storage, then it should still work. Though I'm not sure how they are doing this. Give it a try and report back. Lonnie > On Feb 16, 2020, at 4:57 PM, Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > > Sorry Lonnie no I haven’t tried it yet. > Thick is pre allocating all disk storage whereas Thin is allocating on demand. > https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-AC8E9C20-C05F-4FB5-A5DA-11D0A77A291B.html > > I want to allocate 20G for each Astlinux box but as I am looking at utilising R1Soft backups with my provider I want to have the minimum size disk space allocation and not just back up zero's. > > Regards > Michael Knill > > On 17/2/20, 9:45 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote: > > > >> On Feb 16, 2020, at 4:39 PM, Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi Group >> >> Just wondering if there are any issues using VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning with Astlinux? > > I don't know what that ESXi feature is ... are you having issues ? > > Lonnie > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.