Thick provision disk type is missing

[mjmderecho]

Thick provision disk type is missing

[scott28tt]

What type of access protocol/method is used to access the datastore?

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

When you open a post you must always put the versions you are referring to.
In which version are you having the problem?

regards,

Alex_Romeo

[mjmderecho]

Hi, here's the version.

vSphere Client version 7.0.3.00300
VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 21313628

[mjmderecho]

When I create a virtual machine, the virtual disk type only has a thin provision option

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

Please, can you also answer Scott28tt question so that we have more information?

regards

Alex_Romeo

[mjmderecho]

The datastore type is NFS 3

[AnaghB]

Hello @mjmderecho 

For NFS the type of disk will be Thin by default. To create the Thick disk the Hardware Acceleration should be enabled that supports the Reserve Space Operation. Please check if the Hardware acceleration for NFS is enabled or not.

[mjmderecho]

Hi @AnaghB ,

Thank you for the info, upon checking, the hardware acceleration is not supported. Is there a workaround to enable the thick provision?

Btw, I'm using IBM Cloud Storage for my VMware datastore.

[Tinto1970]

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@mjmderecho wrote:

Hi @AnaghB ,

Thank you for the info, upon checking, the hardware acceleration is not supported. Is there a workaround to enable the thick provision?

Btw, I'm using IBM Cloud Storage for my VMware datastore.

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I think no. But you can use the thin disk, this will not affect performance. Just monitor your storage to put under control or avoid overprovisioning

[AnaghB]

Hello @mjmderecho ,

On the Thick Disk Type the blocks on the physical drives are allocated in advance while creating the disk. This task can only be achieved when Hardware Acceleration is enabled. Nowdays most of the SAN supports Hardware Acceleration. Please check with your SAN Vendor if this can be enabled.

Also without the Hardware Acceleration the Thick disks cannot be provisioned. You can continue using the Thin Disk type as the performance on both of them is same. With thin disk we only need to be cautious with over provisioning.

[mjmderecho]

@scott28tt 
Type: Endurance (4 IOPS/GB)
Access protocol/method: NFS 3