NFS VAAI - Attempting to create thin VMDKs results in Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed VMDKs when datastores are mounted indirectly
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Applies to
- NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI 1.1.x
- ONTAP 9.x
- ESXi 6.x
Issue
Attempting to create a Thin VMDK for a new or existing virtual machine, results in the creation of a Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed disk. This is seen when a disk creation operation is initiated on a indirect volume mount by an ESXi host with NFS VAAI installed.
Note: Indirect volume mounts are when a volume is mounted to a LIF that is on a node that is not local to the volume.
Select Thin disk:
View results after disk creation:
