Changing the Provisioning of a Virtual Disk

Thin to Thick Provisioning

1. Power off the virtual machine.
2. In vSphere Client, right-click the virtual machine in the inventory.
3. Click Edit Settings to display the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
4. Click the Hardware tab and select the appropriate hard disk in the Hardware list.

Note: The Disk Provisioning Type section on the right displays either Thin Provision or Thick Provision. If the disk provision type is Thick, disk provisioning has already taken place. In this case, the disk provisioning is Thin.

1. Click Cancel to exit out of Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
2. Click the Summary tab of the virtual machine.
3. Under Resources, right-click the datastore where the virtual machine resides and click Browse Datastore.
4. Double-click the virtual machine folder to display the .vmdk file.
5. Right-click the .vmdk file, and click Inflate. The Inflate option converts the disk to thick provisioned.
6. Reload the .vmx file.