I chose thick provisioning, lazy zeroed for my disk (8GB) but for no particular reason... just didn't seem necessary to go with thin on a 2TB SSD and for backup I use tarsnap. But I would think that thin provisioning should work just fine as it should be invisible to the guest OS. However my experience with VMware Fusion on MacOS is that a thin provisioned disk grows as required but never shrinks as space frees up (though you can manually shrink it for some guest OS's... like Windows, but not Linux).
For the record I have been running AstLinux on ESXi on a Qotom Q575G6 (Core i7 w/16GB and aforementioned 2TB) for almost 9 months now and am very impressed. Has been rock solid. The same box also runs two Ubuntu servers (one for a Unifi controller, other just to have available). I even have a Windows 10 sitting mostly idle. I moved from having Astlinux running native on a APU2 with qemu to host the two Ubuntu images to running everything on ESXi. Very good. David On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM Michael Knill < michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > 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.
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