Reclaim space at datastore for Thin provisioned with Guest OS - SuSe Linux 11 SP3

[sharadpandeyhyd]

Hi Experts- I have an issue . I have virtual machines on SUSE Linux which have filesystem "/java/shared" created and mapped to a datastore "JAVA_SHARED" .All VM's are thin provisioned and hence VMDK residing under datastore is also thin.The datastore seems to be getting full. Hence the junk data on the Suse Filesystem was cleaned and percentage dropped to 8% at OS level but at datastore level it still shows occupied. How to reclaim space at datastore level??

The VMware Vsphere version is 5.5

[Techie01]

If you are looking for space reclamation based on GOS file system usage,  only se-sparse disks for do this. But that is only supported for windows VM's. Please read " vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements - Part 2: SE Sparse Disks - CormacHogan.com

[balarajugopinat]

If you are looking for space reclamation based on GOS file system usage,  only se-sparse disks for do this. But that is only supported for windows VM's. Please read " vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements - Part 2: SE Sparse Disks - CormacHogan.com