Converting VMware Workstation Thick Disks (VMDKs) to Thin

By |2016-12-11T15:25:07+00:00February 4th, 2013|ESX, vCenter, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, Workstation|1 Comment

Recently, I built a new machine for my lab (for those interested in the story, here are Parts I, II and III).  I put a 512GB SSD in the new machine with the aim to thin-provision all virtual machines but still get good performance, due to the high number of IOPS/read/write you get from SSDs.  Once [...]