All Categories
Home » Categories » Virtualization » VMware

Convert Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed Disk to Thin on VMware ESXi by vmkfstools
Article Number: 90 | Rating: Unrated | Last Updated: Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 2:43 PM


$ vmkfstools -i VM-DiskFile.vmdk -d thin VM-DiskFile-Thin.vmdk
Posted by: Saeed Nobakht - Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 2:43 PM This article has been viewed 1141 times.
Filed Under: VMware
Article Rating (No Votes)
Rate this article
  • Icon PDFExport to PDF
  • Icon MS-WordExport to MS Word
 
Attachments Attachments
There are no attachments for this article.
Comments Comments
There are no comments for this article. Be the first to post a comment.
Icon Add Comment
Name
Email (Required, but not published)
Comment
Security Code Security Code
 
Related Articles RSS Feed
Shrinking VMDK Virtual Disk Size on VMWare ESXi
Viewed 4276 times since Thu, Jan 6, 2022
How to export a Virtual Machine using the VMware OVF Tool
Viewed 3168 times since Fri, Dec 31, 2021
Reclaiming disk space from thin provisioned VMDK files on ESXi
Viewed 2409 times since Sun, Feb 27, 2022
Failed to reconfigure virtual machine Test-VM. The operation is not allowed in the current state.
Viewed 1669 times since Fri, Dec 31, 2021
VMware - Using the OVF Tool deploy
Viewed 934 times since Sun, Jan 2, 2022
How to Export a vSphere ESXi 6.7 Virtual Machine
Viewed 1821 times since Sun, Feb 7, 2021
Reclaim Used Space with VMKFSTOOLS - Punchzero
Viewed 1474 times since Sat, Jan 1, 2022
Convert qcow2 to vmdk
Viewed 1355 times since Tue, Feb 9, 2021
Migrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare
Viewed 4600 times since Sat, Feb 20, 2021
QemuIMG - How to Convert VHD to VMDK: A Step-By-Step Guide
Viewed 1234 times since Sat, Jan 1, 2022
Subscribe to knowledgebase
Get notified when new articles are added to the knowledgebase.