March 19, 2013
Category: virtualisation, vmware
Tags: operating-system, virtual-machine, vmdk, vmfstools, vmware-esx
Converting a Lazy Zeroed disk to Eagerly
Logon to the ESXI Server where the VM is stored using a product like putty.
Ensure the VM is turned off.
The following command lists the datastores:
"ls" is used to List subregions - used to list out files in a directory.
ls /vmfs/volumes
ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01\_Internal1/
ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01\_Internal1/RDS2012/
"vmkfstools -k /vmfs/volumes/ESX01\_Internal1/RDS2012/RDS2012.vmdk"
As shown above use vmkfstools -k
to convert a Lazy Zeroed disk to a Eagerly Zeroed disk.