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cytexone
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Finding Thick Provisioned Disks

Hi All

I'm looking for an easy way to find our Thick Provisioned Disks within VM's. This way I can convert them to Thin Provisioned Files.

Thanks Everyone

Dan

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lamw
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Take a look at this script:

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cytexone
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So should I run this on one of the hosts in the cluster?

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lamw
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As I've noted this in the documentation, you can run this on a specific ESX(i) host or on vCenter which will dump all VMs being managed by vc. It's pretty easy to update the script to provide more granular input such as a specific datacenter, cluster, etc. and I'll leave that as an exercise for yourself.

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

VMware Developer Comuunity

Twitter: @lamw

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