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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.

  1. ls /vmfs/volumes

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  1. ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01\_Internal1/

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  1. ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01\_Internal1/RDS2012/

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  1. "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.