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Types of virtual disks, Question?
Hi all,
I am newbie in vmware and I want understand it as deep, so I have question about :
"Thick Provision Eager Zeroed – the space required for the virtual disk is allocated during the disk creation. The space is zeroed out when the disk is created.
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed – this is the default disk type. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated during creation. The space is zeroed on command on the first write from the virtual machine. "
Can you explain simply zeroed out and what do it?
Thanks,
I am newbie in vmware and I want understand it as deep, so I have question about :
"Thick Provision Eager Zeroed – the space required for the virtual disk is allocated during the disk creation. The space is zeroed out when the disk is created.
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed – this is the default disk type. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated during creation. The space is zeroed on command on the first write from the virtual machine. "
Can you explain simply zeroed out and what do it?
Thanks,
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
You talking vmfs or nfs?
ASKER
Hi,
Yes, my question is about create virtual diskd for a VM,p in when I want create a VM with wizard ,
Ok,but still, I don't understand why "zero written" operation must be do?
Can you compare it with prepare a physical disk ?
Thanks dearm
Yes, my question is about create virtual diskd for a VM,p in when I want create a VM with wizard ,
Ok,but still, I don't understand why "zero written" operation must be do?
Can you compare it with prepare a physical disk ?
Thanks dearm
Because all no-windows nfs servers and vmfs allocates sparse files in lazy case, sort of thin provisioning in storage unit
It clears the physical sector of the disk
Excellent.g. zeros overwrites blanks the disk destroys the data in the sector before use.
Eager zeroed does this to the entire disk at creation.
Lazy zeroed does it as the disk is written to by the OS so there is a slight delay in writes...
Excellent.g. zeros overwrites blanks the disk destroys the data in the sector before use.
Eager zeroed does this to the entire disk at creation.
Lazy zeroed does it as the disk is written to by the OS so there is a slight delay in writes...
Actually you can read lazy zeroed disk and it is all zeroes in untouched blocks. What happens behind the scenes is that your storage (VAAI) driver makes never written sectors up as zeroes.
ASKER
Hi and very thanks,
So, for writing to virtual disks must first write zero and data overwrite in place?
Is it right?
And do it is right for physical disks,too?
Really thanks for you,
So, for writing to virtual disks must first write zero and data overwrite in place?
Is it right?
And do it is right for physical disks,too?
Really thanks for you,
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This can take time to create the disk but zeroed out disks can increase performance.