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Thats what I thought, I ran the new CMD and it was quick <br />
Luckily i had a spare host in maintenance mode, but I don't know what impact it would have on a running live host.<br />
Thanks
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Thats what I thought, I ran the new CMD and it was quick
Luckily i had a spare host in maintenance mode, but I don't know what impact it would have on a running live host.
Thanks

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The impact is negligible as it reclaims the space in small chunks. Until and unless your datastore is highly utilized and having latency you will not see the difference.
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The impact is negligible as it reclaims the space in small chunks. Until and unless your datastore is highly utilized and having latency you will not see the difference.

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Reclaiming unused disk space on VMWARE vmfs5 datastore running on ESXi6<br />
Datastore is on Equallogic SAN<br />
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I did this a long time ago probably when I was running ESXi5.5 using this cmd but its not working anymore.<br />
<b>vmkfstools -y 60</b><br />
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VMware Docs say to use this CMD but they dont show you example or tell you the impact on the server.<br />
Since this is production I need more info before I run it.<br />
<b>esxcli storage vmfs unmap</b><br />
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Can someone confirm proper procedure for my example of VMFS5 on ESXi6<br />
<br />
Thanks
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Reclaiming unused disk space on VMWARE vmfs5 datastore running on ESXi6
Datastore is on Equallogic SAN

I did this a long time ago probably when I was running ESXi5.5 using this cmd but its not working anymore.
vmkfstools -y 60

VMware Docs say to use this CMD but they dont show you example or tell you the impact on the server.
Since this is production I need more info before I run it.
esxcli storage vmfs unmap

Can someone confirm proper procedure for my example of VMFS5 on ESXi6

Thanks

Reclaim VMWARE datastore unsued space

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

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