Using thin provisioned virtual disks can provide many benefits. Not only do they allow over-provisioning, but with the prevalence of flash storage, performance degradation really isn’t a concern like it used to be. I recently ran into a situation in my home lab where my Windows jump box ran out of disk space. I had downloaded a bunch of OVA and ISO files and had forgotten to move them over to a shared drive that I use for archiving.
I expanded the disk by 10GB to take it from 40GB to 50GB, and moved off all the large files. After this, I had about 26GB used and 23GB free – much better. Because that jump box is sitting on flash storage – which is limited in my lab – I had thin provisioned this VM to conserve as much disk space as possible. Despite freeing up lots of space, the VM’s VMDK was still consuming a lot more than 26GB. Notice below that doing a normal directory listing displays the maximum possible size of a thin disk. In this case, the disk has been expanded to 50GB: [root@esx0:/vmfs/volumes/58f77a6f-30961726-ac7e-002655e1b06c/jump] ls -lha total 49741856 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0K Feb 12 21:50.
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Feb 25, 2007 Subscribe to Systems Engineering and RDBMS via Email. Exporting and Importing Virtual Machines Using ‘vmkfstools’. (remember that VMWare GSX Server and Workstation run on Windows). The vmkfstools command and switches required to. Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files) If you need to install or reinstall Windows 7 you can use this page to download a disc image (ISO file) to create your own installation media using either a USB flash drive or a DVD.
If your FRITZ!Box 7360 router is not working as it should, dropping connections or not being responsive, you should first do a reset of the router to see if the problems persist. Other scenarios where you might want to reset your router is if you've forgotten the password or misconfigured it and can't get access anymore.