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The size displayed for the virtual disk in the vSphere Client differs from the actual provisioned value

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Applies to

  • VMware vSphere Client
  • NFS

Issue

  • A 10TB NFS datastore has a single 9.5TB "Thick Provisioning (Lazy Zeroed)" virtual disk created.
  • The size displayed in the vSphere Client is approximately double the provisioned value (19.04TB).
  • ONTAP shows the actual created size.

Feature                                           Used      Used%
--------------------------------      ----------------      -----
User Data                                       9.53TB        95%
Filesystem Metadata                             2.87GB         0%
Inodes                                          24.0KB         0%
Total                                           9.59TB        96%
Total Physical Used                             9.12TB        91%
Logical Used                                    9.59TB        96%

Logical Available                                412GB         4%

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