Comments on: VMware ESX 4 Reclaiming Thin Provisioned disk Unused Space

By: Eiad

Eiad — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:39:57 +0000

Hi Vladan,

Although I have not tried this without storage vMotion, you should be able to achieve the same result by replacing the Storage vMotion with the following procedure:

1- Shutdown the Virtual Machine after you had run the sdelete on it.
2- Migrate the Virtual Machine to another VMFS datastore.
3- Power on the Virtual Machine.

The above procedure should do the trick for customers who does not own storage vMotion, though it requires a bit of downtime. Hmmm, as you mentioned SMB & they will not spend for storage vMotion then I guess they could handle a bit of downtime.

Did someone say this can be another reason to sell storage vMotion?!?!

I hope that help, & keep in touch.

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By: Vladan

Vladan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:30:02 +0000

What’s the option for SMB customers having Essentials or Essential plus license? Without storage vMotion?

Any options?

Thanks
Vladan