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Convert Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed Disk to Thin on VMware ESXi by vmkfstools
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$ 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 894 times.
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