- #VMWARE ESXI 5 EXPAND THIN PROVISIONED DISK PRO#
- #VMWARE ESXI 5 EXPAND THIN PROVISIONED DISK SOFTWARE#
- #VMWARE ESXI 5 EXPAND THIN PROVISIONED DISK WINDOWS#
Well, 40GB just wasn’t enough anymore (with all the software I have installed and because I recently installed Dropbox and synced most of my 50GB quote down to the VM).įigure 1: Virtual machine disk out of space (13MB free of 40GB) I believe it was Workstation that initially created a 40GB disk partition for the VM when I created it and it had stuck ever since.
#VMWARE ESXI 5 EXPAND THIN PROVISIONED DISK WINDOWS#
Recently that Windows VM, used as my desktop (which was brought over from VMware Fusion and Workstation before that) ran out of disk space.
#VMWARE ESXI 5 EXPAND THIN PROVISIONED DISK PRO#
It is there that I run Outlook 2010, run the vSphere Client (as it only runs in Windows, and any other Windows apps I need to run (as my new primary desktop is a Macbook Pro laptop connected to a Thunderbolt display). Accessed April 28, 2014.I used a vSphere VM as my primary Windows desktop (when I use Windows, that is). In the example below, it took about 60 seconds to refresh that 50GB of space had been reclaimed.Ībout Thin provisioning of Equallogic and VMware vSphere. If Group Manager was open while the free space reclaim command was executed, Group Manager will auto refresh after space starts to clear up on the volume. If the command fails, lower your percentage to something like 10 or 20%. If need be, the command can be run multiple times to reclaim all the free blocks. Although you can increase this number up to 99%, VMware suggests keeping this at 60%. This will clear up 60% of the amount of free space available. I typically verify what commands I am going to run before running them, so I ran the command: vmkfstools –y ? My path will display something a bit different. In this case, I have identified that I want to clean up EQL-Vol-01 (this is case sensitive), so I issued command: cd EQL-Vol-01Īlthough I have successfully navigated to /vmfs/volumes/EQL-Vol-01, VMware will navigate me to the ID for the datastore. Next, I typically browse the directory to select what datastore I want to connect. Once SSH has been enabled, connect to the host using SSH.
Note: You must be on firmware version 6.0.1 or higher to be able to reclaim disk space. Reclaiming Space on the EqualLogic Volume The first step will be to enable SSH on a host that has access to the Datastores.įind SSH in the menu and start the process:
Note: If you are running ESXi 5.5 / vCenter 5.5, visit the EqualLogic and VMware 5.5: Reclaim Unused Disk Space for EQL Volume article to reclaim space on a thin provisioned EqualLogic. Fortunately, from EqualLogic firmware 6.0.1, space can now be reclaimed on the EqualLogic by running a few simple commands in VMware. This process can be incredibly time consuming and add a large load to the environment. One of the few ways this could be fixed is by migrating all virtual machines to a newly created datastore. VMware shows that 414.59GB of free space is available.ĮqualLogic shows that 272.09GB of free space is available. This can cause an EqualLogic volume to appear to be using more space than is actually in use. In the case of VMware and EqualLogic (EQL), although both can be used in conjunction with one another and both will continue to grow together, VMware does not report to the EqualLogic when freed blocks can be returned to the free space pool when space is cleared up. This can be applied at both the hypervisor level and the storage area network level. For many businesses, using thin provisioned volumes is the best way to optimize a virtual machine environment.
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