Estimating Disk Space requirements for a VM

[drharrold]

Hi,

I am trying to plan for some VMs to be replicated and I would like to estimate how much space will be required to support the replecation.

For example, if I have a VM with a 100GB vmdk, how can I estimate how much space is going to be required for the HBR file.  I know it can be up to 100%, but I'm hoping to estimate what it will actually be, as some of the data stores won't have enough space to reserve 100% overhead for all of the VMs to be replicated.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Dave

[iangelov]

Hi, AFAIK there is no way to estimate space requirements, you may need actually up to twice source size.

But you can save a lot of disk space using thin disks on target.