Thin Provisioning

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

NFS, Thin-provisioning, VMWARE

Hello, Currently running VI3.5 and Virtual Center attached to a NAS via NFS and iSCSI. How do I create a VM from a template and utilize the default thin provisioning that NFS has. Example: When I create a windows 2003 VM with 10G C drive over an NFS datastore from scratch, thin provisioning is...

Thin Provisioning ?

Interested in any feedback regarding the viability of Thin Provisioning ( via FC SAN attached, not NAS)in a large scale environment. Items of specific interest related to Win2k03,AIX Oracle/MSSQL What vendors solution are you using? Has it worked as expected? Has the added value of T.P overcome...