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We mistakenly created 2 VMs through the 6.5 web gui and created them with THIN provisioning. We would like to change this to THICK provisioning, is this possible? We found a KB article (<a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2014832" rel="ugc nofollow">https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2014832</a>) but it refers to inflating the drive via vSphere which does not seem to be available anymore. When navigating to the vmdk file, there is no inflate option.<br />
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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We mistakenly created 2 VMs through the 6.5 web gui and created them with THIN provisioning. We would like to change this to THICK provisioning, is this possible? We found a KB article (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2014832) but it refers to inflating the drive via vSphere which does not seem to be available anymore. When navigating to the vmdk file, there is no inflate option.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Changing from THIN to THICK provisioning via Esxi 6.5 web gui

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.