topic Re: Thick provision disk type is missing in vSphere™ Storage Discussions

Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:12:38 GMT

Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

scott28tt — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:22:28 GMT

What type of access protocol/method is used to access the datastore?

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Alex_Romeo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:28:51 GMT

Hi,

When you open a post you must always put the versions you are referring to.
In which version are you having the problem?

regards,

Alex_Romeo

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:35:28 GMT

Hi, here's the version.

vSphere Client version 7.0.3.00300
VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 21313628

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:36:34 GMT

When I create a virtual machine, the virtual disk type only has a thin provision option

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Alex_Romeo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:50:24 GMT

Hi,

Please, can you also answer Scott28tt question so that we have more information?

regards

Alex_Romeo

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:54:01 GMT

The datastore type is NFS 3

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

AnaghB — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:10:49 GMT

Hello @mjmderecho

For NFS the type of disk will be Thin by default. To create the Thick disk the Hardware Acceleration should be enabled that supports the Reserve Space Operation. Please check if the Hardware acceleration for NFS is enabled or not.

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:32:24 GMT

Hi @AnaghB ,

Thank you for the info, upon checking, the hardware acceleration is not supported. Is there a workaround to enable the thick provision?

Btw, I'm using IBM Cloud Storage for my VMware datastore.

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Tinto1970 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:25:05 GMT

@mjmderecho wrote:
Hi @AnaghB ,

Thank you for the info, upon checking, the hardware acceleration is not supported. Is there a workaround to enable the thick provision?

Btw, I'm using IBM Cloud Storage for my VMware datastore.

I think no. But you can use the thin disk, this will not affect performance. Just monitor your storage to put under control or avoid overprovisioning

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

AnaghB — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:11:53 GMT

Hello @mjmderecho ,

On the Thick Disk Type the blocks on the physical drives are allocated in advance while creating the disk. This task can only be achieved when Hardware Acceleration is enabled. Nowdays most of the SAN supports Hardware Acceleration. Please check with your SAN Vendor if this can be enabled.

Also without the Hardware Acceleration the Thick disks cannot be provisioned. You can continue using the Thin Disk type as the performance on both of them is same. With thin disk we only need to be cautious with over provisioning.

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

mjmderecho — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:44:55 GMT

@scott28tt
Type: Endurance (4 IOPS/GB)
Access protocol/method: NFS 3

topic Re: Thick provision disk type is missing in vSphere™ Storage Discussions

Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Hi, here's the version.vSphere Client version 7.0.3.00300VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 21313628

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

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Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Re: Thick provision disk type is missing

Hi, here's the version.

vSphere Client version 7.0.3.00300
VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 21313628