Comments on: Some Thoughts on Thin Provisioning

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:47:15 +0000

We started deploying thin provisioing at the VMFS/VM level for non disk intensive VM’s - AD, APP, web server type VM’s. I have done a couple of test/Dev SQL VM’s as thing and so far no complaints from the users.

The question of thin on thin though, I would go with the underlying storage thin provisioing first, then the vm level if I had the opportunity.

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By: Preetam

Preetam — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:52:18 +0000

yours thoughts are of every administrator’s & designer’s. Same question came to my mind, I was going to post it on vSphere community.Thanks it was good reading

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By: PiroNet

PiroNet — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:34:49 +0000

Hi Mike, I’m also very interested in your tests…
Whilst I’m confident in thin provisioning, at the SAN or VMFS level, or both actually, I’m more confused about how to properly monitor it…
Rgds,

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:23 +0000

Mike,

Please post your results or ping me and let me know how it goes. I am really curious to hear what happens.

Thanks for the post!!

Steve

By: Mike Horwath

Mike Horwath — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:49:25 +0000

Thin provisioning on top of thin provisioning is scary and I have no idea what I want to do about it.

I am stepping back and reevaluating how I want to go forward. One test I am working on (gonna be a couple weeks before I can do it) is to overprovision on thin provisioning from VMware + thin provisioning from Compellent (SAN i have), and see what happens when I fill it. I am expecting some beautiful sparks!