The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

In my post, "Religious Issue #6: Thin Provisioning," a number of people piped up with comments, as I expected. I'm a fan of thin provisioning and use it in almost every situation for my virtualization ...

I've got a thin-provisioned vmdk that I'd like to burn to a dvd so I can send it through the mail (how quaint). When I scp the image from the ESXi host to my workstation, it blows up to full size. I ...

Within virtualization circles, there is debate about whether or not to use thin provisioning on the hypervisor. Thin provisioning is available on all major hypervisors, including VMware's vSphere 4.

Is it possible under ISCSI to share a datastore volume between mutiple ESXi Hosts? I have many ISO files on an ISCSI SAN volume that I would like to access from mutiple ESXi Hosts rather than copying ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...