http://www.virtualinsanity.com/index.php/2009/10/12/get-thin-provisioning-working-for-you-in-vsphere/ a technology blog with a focus on virtualization and cloud computing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.virtualinsanity.com/index.php/2009/10/12/get-thin-provisioning-working-for-you-in-vsphere/comment-page-1/#comment-2171 « To Thin Provision? Get it Right the First Time Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:01:39 +0000 http://www.virtualinsanity.com/index.php/2009/10/19/get-thin-provisioning-working-for-you-in-vsphere/#comment-2171 [...] Let’s face it, space is money and we are always looking for a way to save it.  Thin provising help you do just that if you plan your deployments . Giving a thin provisioned hard drive can expand on demand and consume all data on the datastore if you over allocate the space.  In that event, the datastore can remain full and not allow the running vm’s to write to the datastore causing major issues.   You will have to free up space in order to get the VM’s running again.  Freeing up space can be a task in itself, and this can take some time and when a server is completely down.  I will show you how to setup some alarms to help keep this from happening later.  So I am going to help you show you a few tips that should get you going in the right directions. The below script can give you a birds eye view of what servers would benefit the most from thin provisioning.   First you need to run a powercli script that will give a little more depth on how your environment looks.  I found this great script on virtual insanity’s website. [...] [...] Let’s face it, space is money and we are always looking for a way to save it.  Thin provising help you do just that if you plan your deployments . Giving a thin provisioned hard drive can expand on demand and consume all data on the datastore if you over allocate the space.  In that event, the datastore can remain full and not allow the running vm’s to write to the datastore causing major issues.   You will have to free up space in order to get the VM’s running again.  Freeing up space can be a task in itself, and this can take some time and when a server is completely down.  I will show you how to setup some alarms to help keep this from happening later.  So I am going to help you show you a few tips that should get you going in the right directions. The below script can give you a birds eye view of what servers would benefit the most from thin provisioning.   First you need to run a powercli script that will give a little more depth on how your environment looks.  I found this great script on virtual insanity’s website. [...]

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