New-HardDisk and thick provisioning

[AndyMcM]

Hopefully this is a really simple one.

Trying to use New-HardDisk to create some new disks on some VM's but I can't get the disks to be Thick provisioned and they seem to be done as Thin.

Using the below command at the moment on vCenter 6.5.

New-HardDisk -VM $VM -CapacityGB 5 -Datastore $Datastore -StorageFormat Thick

Looks like -StorageFormat uses VirtualDiskStorageFormat But am unsure how to create that and provide to the command.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for Help.

Andy.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

First idea : you are trying to create the vmdks on NFS.
On NFS vmdks are always thin.

[AndyMcM]

Thanks continuum​, that's exactly what's going on, our test environment is based on NFS and been spending a while wondering why it did not work.

A.