I'm looking for a good solution to a VMware ESXi environment issue where there's no vCenter available.
What's the best way to move a VM from one datastore to another on a single ESXi host, while maintaining the VMDK thin-provisioning?
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We're running some ESXi 5.0/vCenter infrastructure to host mainly Debian 6/amd64 guest systems with ext3 partitions and open-vm-tools compiled from source per debian bug 471784.
Got an…
I see a lot of questions and answers surrounding thin provisioning on VMWare ESXi but not exactly what I'm encountering. I am creating a brand new VM and specifying a 100GB thin provisioned hard disk. From all I've read, I'm expecting the physical…
I typically use thin-provisioning of storage space when building VMs: it provides a lot of flexibility, and seems to be faster to build.
The only potential definite advantage I can see is to ensure that a VM doesn't accidentally run out of available…
I've created ZFS datasets and installed virtual servers into them. Suddenly my ZFS volume free space is gone, but not all space is used in each dataset. I want to introduce thin provisioning (use ZFS sparse volume).
Is it possible to convert…
I have mapped IScsi volumes into my windows 2016 server. I have created disk out of them. Now i need to find whether the disk is thin provisioned or not.
I am trying with below cmdlets
Get-Disk and Get-PhysicalDisk
But no luck. How to find…
I am doing an educational project where I have to setup 3 (or more) Windows 2008 R2 servers on a machine running ESXi. I wanted to give myself a head start so I began setting an ESXi environment inside VMware Workstation 8 to create a base…
Well, RHEL 7.5 released with important add-on, VDO, which basically adds thin provisioned compressed and de-duplicated volumes, which is great and we'll get these benefits with derivatives and other distros too, as technology was acquired from…
I have the following lvm configuration.
Hard Disk: /dev/sdb (Size 10 GB)
VG: vg_root on /dev/sdb
THIN_POOL thin_pool occupying the whole physical extent
lvcreate -y --extents 100%free --thin vg_root/thin_pool
Thin volume on the thin pool
lvcreate…
I googled many times but couldn't find an answer. What I want is cloning an LVM thin provisioning volume to another thin volume.
For now I know dd can clone a thin volume as following:
dd if=/dev/mapper/vg_thin01 of=/dev/mapper/vg_thin02 bs=1M
But…
I am building a system that gives users certain amounts of disk space. The way I am doing it is:
create a file with dd
create an ext4 filesystem inside the file
mount the file and tell the user program to use the mountpoint as its working…
With many large Xen sparse image files that have to be backed up, I'm looking for a way to do this efficiently both in terms of disk space (saving space with a differential tool like duplicity, bup, rsync, womble's lvmsync, etc.) and disk/network…