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VMBuddy20111014
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What happen to VMs thin provisioned vmdk

I have a datastore of 100 GB and creating some VMs with thin provisioned disk. and after some times my datastore was full, there is no free space in the datastore. what will happen to the VMs in that datastores.

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mbaecke
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You don't want to go there. Unless you want to have an long nice call with support Smiley Happy

Monitor your datastores when using thin provisioned VMs. Always allow enough space to be available. Set an alarm when your datastore passes 80% or so.

Martijn Baecke | http://thinkcloud.nl
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