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Balal604
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thin virtual disk have full size allocated -seems

i created a vm with thin disk type , give it 500 gb capacity , install os and its actuall size is 3.60 Gb i can verify it by Vsphere, the name of disk is "vmname.vmdk"

now i want to relocated it to another esxi server , but when i started downloding , its size is become very larg and reached even 171 GB name of the disk was changed to "vmname-flat.vmdk"(on where i was downloading )and my disk space ends on local computer where i was downloading , how i can download and upload it with the same size means 3.60 GB ,

please guide me

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Welcome to the Community,

thin provisioning is a feature of the VMFS file system, that's why the virtual disk inflates to its provisioned size when downloading it. What you could do is to export the VM (File -> Export) as an OVF and import it on the destination host.

André

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Welcome to the Community,

thin provisioning is a feature of the VMFS file system, that's why the virtual disk inflates to its provisioned size when downloading it. What you could do is to export the VM (File -> Export) as an OVF and import it on the destination host.

André

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i have export it as you said and imported as "deploy OVF tamplate" ,it worked thanks

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