vSphere web client will not allow me to create a new VM with a disk larger than the free space available, even if it is thin provisioned.
It will, however, happily allow me to create as many disks as I want that are below the size free, even if the total is more than the free space available.
How can I force creation of a single disk that is larger than the free space in the datastore?
I am not concerned about over-provisioning since once this VM is loaded with software, it is going to be exported to another host.
That's interesting, because I keep doing this in my lab all the time.
At which point does it refuse to create the virtual disk? A screenshot may help.
André
I noticed the same with a 6.7 host.
So I used vmkfstools to create the vmdk and that worked as expected
That may be a possibility, but I'd have to get someone else to do it, as I do not have shell access.