![]() Notice below that doing a normal directory listing displays the maximum possible size of a thin disk. Despite freeing up lots of space, the VM’s VMDK was still consuming a lot more than 26GB. After this, I had about 26GB used and 23GB free – much better.īecause 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. ![]() I expanded the disk by 10GB to take it from 40GB to 50GB, and moved off all the large files. 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 recently ran into a situation in my home lab where my Windows jump box ran out of disk space. 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. Using thin provisioned virtual disks can provide many benefits.
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