I never liked the idea of Thin Provisioning. With the relative low cost of disk space, I don't think it's worth baby sitting your storage pools to ensure enough free space is available. That's just my opinion of course.
- Sean On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>wrote: > Mind if I ask why you use thick for your guests? > > > > This is our first SAN that does thin, and our first experience of vsphere > that supports thin – seems a no brainer to go thin with the obvious caveat > of if your environment means over-provisioning could creep up on your very > quickly. > > *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 26 January 2011 16:58 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters? > > > > With ESXi 4.1, when we to a storage motion, we haev three options. Leave > the same, thin format, thick format. We store our templates in thin format > and our guest systems are thick format. Occasionally we miss one setting > change when deploying new guests so we smotion them to correct it. > > Steven Peck > http://www.blkmtn.org > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Paul Hutchings < > [email protected]> wrote: > > My understanding is that when migrating to vsphere 4.1 that the same as > with a new VM, you can choose to move the thick VMDK or you can move it and > reprovision it as a thin VMDK, in which case running sdelete first just > optimizes how much space vsphere thinks is in use within the VMDK. > > *From:* Ken Cornetet [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 26 January 2011 16:34 > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > > *Subject:* RE: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters? > > > > I don’t think the thin provisioning is relevant. The vmdk files will be > moved as they are. > > > > *From:* Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:09 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Moving VM's between vCenter clusters? > > > > I have a new SAN and vCenter server and vSphere hosts which I’m finalizing > testing. > > > > One thing I’ve not been able to easily try is how to get the VM’s off my > existing hosts and onto the new hosts. > > > > My understanding is that I should be able to simply join the current > vSphere boxes (ESX 3.5) to the new vCenter and from there, do a migration > (offline) of the VM’s to the new servers and storage. > > > > I’m using thin provisioning on the new SAN and within vSphere so I need to > run something like sdelete in each existing VM to zero the free space, but > other than that, have I missed anything blindingly obvious please? > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > ------------------------------ > > *MIRA Ltd* > > > > Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England > > Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 > > VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 > > > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete > it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, > forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is > prohibited. > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > > > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
