VMware eager zeroed thick (EZT)disk not taking up volume space
Applies to
- VMware NFS datastore
- ONTAP Storage efficiency
- Thin provisioned volume
Issue
- VMware eager zeroed thick (EZT)disk not taking up thin provisioned volume space
- ONTAP command shows a discrepancy in space reservation when VMs are created with eager zero(EZT) and lazy zero thick (LZT)disk types on a thin volume.
cluster1::> df -V -g -volume vol_eager*
Filesystem total used avail capacity Mounted on Vserver
/vol/vol_eager_thin/ 10GB 0GB 9GB 0% /vol_eager_thin svm1_cluster1
cluster1::> df -V -g -volume vol_lazy*
Filesystem total used avail capacity Mounted on Vserver
/vol/vol_lazy_thin/ 10GB 5GB 4GB 50% /vol_lazy_thin svm1_cluster1