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aryazdanpanah
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Hard disk size is much larger than the data inside a virtual machine

hi every body

I have 3 host by Esxi 6.7 and many VM
All VM disk is THIN

3 VMs Hard disk size is much larger than the data inside a virtual machine like (photo Attached)

please help  me to improve this issue

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Thin provisioning is a file system feature. What you see in the GUI is the provisioned disk size. If you want to see the used disk space you can run e.g. ls -lisa from the command line, which shows the used space in kB in the second column. Alternatively you may use the du command, e.g. du -h *-flat.vmdk


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