On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > You do know you can thin provision in both VMWare and HyperV, right? > > Thus, you can stipulate that a disk have a max size of 200GB, but if you're > only using 50GB, it will only be 50GB in size.
I never use think disks, personally. Not for production use - possibly for a test VM. I'd be afraid of what would happen if the disk needed to expand, and there wasn't enough available disk space. With (hopefully) sensibly sized thick disks, you know the running machines will continue to run, up to the assigned disk maximum. And with an alerting system that notifies you of free disk left, you can deal with the situation ahead of time (usually). If a production server needs space in the middle of the night, and there's not enough room on that datastore, that can be bad .... altho I guess storage profiles (for VMware) might be able to help with that. I guess Hyper-V has a similar feature, to move VMs between datastores based on pre-defined profiles. > Thus, no reason for Windows users to howl. > > Plus, Windows doesn't mind extending non-boot disks, but it's not all that > happy about having its boot disk extended, no matter what the underlying > hypervisor. True. But it's a lot better and easier with Win2008, and I imagine at least as easy with 2012. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
