Datastore browser shows different size on vmdk then the ESXi shell

[Noiden]

Hi,

I moved a VM from one host to another and also choosed to make the disk thin instead of thick.

I run the sdelete command on the Windows server and then vmkfstools -K to punch out zeros.

Now in the datastore browser the size is 40GB but when i list it on the ESXi shell it shows as 160GB.

How big is it in reality?

Datastore browser in vCenter

ls in ESXi shell

[loungehostmaste]

40 GBcrap

the ESXi shell is crap and don't support the "-s" (sprase) option other than a Linux on as exmaple a NFS server hosting thin provisioned disks - oh an beware using the "Mv" command to move a thin provisioned disk between datastores - you end with a full-sized and probably a full filesystem

look at the first column (CentOS7)

[root@nfs:/nfs/z-recovery]$ /bin/ls -l -h -s

total 236G

   0 -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 112M Feb 23 15:55 vmx-z-recovery-4010527134-1.vswp

74G -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 256G Feb 23 16:35 z-recovery_1-flat.vmdk

4.0K -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter  502 Feb 23 15:56 z-recovery_1.vmdk

74G -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 256G Feb 23 16:21 z-recovery_2-flat.vmdk

4.0K -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter  502 Feb 23 15:56 z-recovery_2.vmdk

74G -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 256G Feb 23 16:21 z-recovery_3-flat.vmdk

4.0K -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter  502 Feb 23 15:56 z-recovery_3.vmdk

   0 -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 5.0G Feb 23 15:55 z-recovery-ef0bc99e.vswp

16G -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 200G Feb 23 16:35 z-recovery-flat.vmdk

12K -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter 8.5K Feb 23 16:35 z-recovery.nvram

4.0K -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter  523 Feb 23 15:56 z-recovery.vmdk

   0 -rw-r--r-- 1 vcenter vcenter    0 Feb 16 05:20 z-recovery.vmsd

8.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 vcenter vcenter 4.7K Feb 23 16:04 z-recovery.vmx

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 vcenter vcenter 3.3K Feb 23 16:17 z-recovery.vmxf

   0 -rw------- 1 vcenter vcenter    0 Feb 23 15:55 z-recovery.vmx.lck

[Noiden]

Aha.. I tried that ls -l -h -s and the output is this,

39883776 -rw-------    1 root     root      160.0G Feb 23 16:00

So I guess the first row there is in kb, so the actual size on the disk is 40GB? :smileygrin: