Hi All,
I have a disk (vmdk) like "Thick Provision Lazy", and I need to change it to "Thick Provision Eager", well, I ran the command 'vmkfstools --inflatedisk PANVFSP380A_3.vmdk', didn't give any error, gave as' 100% done 'but on VMware's properties, it still remains as Thick Lazy. Is there a procedure after the vmkfstools --inflatedisk command needs to be done to confirm the change?
Return of the command:
"[root@VSPHERESERVER:/vmfs/volumes/5bce4edd-e282a332-2220-6cc2173fc0d0/PANVFSP380A_1] vmkfstools --eagerzero PANVFSP380A_3.vmdk
Eagerly zeroing: 100% done."
Regards!
Bruno Damasceno
I don't have a system to reproduce this at the moment, However, did you reload the VM after running the command, so that its metadata get's reread/updated?
see https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026043
André
Hi
You can try register/add a VM to the inventory for reloading the file vmx.
vmkfstools -p 0 PANVFSP380A_3-flat.vmdk > map.txt
will show wether the vmdk is eager zeroed or lazy zeroed