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Thanks - I wasn't going all the way to the top of the tree - the vCenter level. &nbsp;Was able to change it there.
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Thanks - I wasn't going all the way to the top of the tree - the vCenter level.  Was able to change it there.

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Just needed to go to the top level
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Is there a way to change the percentages that vSphere uses to determine the status of datastores? &nbsp;I use a SAN that does thin provisioning, so I don't use VMware's thin provisioning. &nbsp;So I have a Volume (Lun) with 1000GB of space, and I create a flat virtual disk on it of 950GB. &nbsp;Since it's flat on the VMware side, I know that it will never grow beyond 950GB. &nbsp;VMware flags this with the red Alert! symbol anytime you see this datastore, because there is only 5% free space on the volume. &nbsp;What I want to do is change the alert level to something like 2% so I don't get these flagged.<br />
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Is this possible?<br />
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Is there a way to change the percentages that vSphere uses to determine the status of datastores?  I use a SAN that does thin provisioning, so I don't use VMware's thin provisioning.  So I have a Volume (Lun) with 1000GB of space, and I create a flat virtual disk on it of 950GB.  Since it's flat on the VMware side, I know that it will never grow beyond 950GB.  VMware flags this with the red Alert! symbol anytime you see this datastore, because there is only 5% free space on the volume.  What I want to do is change the alert level to something like 2% so I don't get these flagged.

Is this possible?

Thanks

VMware vSphere Datastore alarms

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.