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Implications of Thick Volume Occupying 93% Of The Storage Pool on QNAP NAS

Spoiler Alert: I don't know a ton about what I'm doing, but I've been tasked with data protection and backing up at my workplace so I installed a NAS and set it up. Ideally I'd like to not have to ...
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Does vCenter/VMWare have a tool/command that shows Actual Usage (Written Data) within thick Provisioned Storage in a DataStore

I am very familiar with our storage footprints. All our storage is thin provisioned (is there any Enterprise Array these days that does not use thin provisioning. Don't think so). And of course see ...
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Storage space usage with thick provisioned disks

We are using VMware vSphere and NetApp and are trying to troubleshoot some mind-melting space problems. Part of this problem is two colleagues disagreeing on how thick provisioned disks relate to used ...
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Why is my vSphere disk now thick provisioned?

I have a vSphere 5.0 VM that was created with entirely thin-provisioned disks (I don't have any other options when creating them). A year later, one of the disks is now no longer thin provisioned but ...
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should I use thick or thin provisioning

I have a linux vm with 40GB Thick provision Eager Zeroed. when I login to my ESXI Server I can see that the folder of the VM is about 40GB. I've created a 10GB file on the linux VM machine. I see ...
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How do I expand a VMware Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed drive?

I have a drive that is VMWare Thick Provisioned with a format of Thick Provisioned Eager Zero. I need to expand this drive by 10Gb, but unlike Thick Provisioned Lazy zero, I can't expand that drive ...
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Why does "eager" vs "lazy" zeroing take much longer when provisioning a VM from a template?

Slightly related to a previous question about thick vs thin provisioning, why does eager zeroing the to-be-cloned VM take longer than lazy zeroing? For example, in a recent test we ran, an eager-...
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Advantages of thick provisioning of storage over thin provisioning with virtual machines

I typically use thin-provisioning of storage space when building VMs: it provides a lot of flexibility, and seems to be faster to build. The only potential definite advantage I can see is to ensure ...
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