By: SP
Hi Cormac & palong, thanks for creating and responding on this article, i was in a similar situation mentioned in this. used the above command for extending the disk type and was sucessfull with...
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I ran into this today and I cannot belief that this is still an issue. So at the moment there is no way to extend a eager disk in eager format while the VM is running? I just checked the disks in one...
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By: Ralf
Ondrej, where did you get the info that this is fixed in 6.0? I can not find anything related in the Changelog and can not test it at the moment.
View ArticleBy: John
I opened a support case with VMware and they confirmed this “behavior” (they refused to call it a bug and instead said it was by design), is “fixed” in 6.0. Due to the large amount of code changes...
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Thanks, I also opened a case a while ago and received the answer that this is the intended behavior. But i did not receive the update that this is now fixed in 6.0.
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Great work VMware. NOT! Now that eagerzeroed vDisks are extended in eagerzero format in 6.0, the VM does hang until the task has finished. That can be a couple of minutes for the extension of some...
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In our ESXi 6.0 environment, previous attempts to extend an existing eagerzeroedthick disk resulted in temporary vm inaccessibility during the extend operation due to stun operation as described in KB...
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FYI, when running the vmkfstools to extend as eagerzeroedthick VAAI is not used.
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Hey Cormac – any update on this with the later releases of vSphere/vCenter? I just noticed this exact behavior on our vCenter 5.1 U1 environment when expanded a eager zeroed thick VMDK using the thick...
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hi its a good article and we are facing exact issue in our environment, but when i tried ” vmkfstools -X 6G -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/cs-ee-symmlun-001A/cormac.vmdk ” for the VM what i would...
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Cormac – forgive me responding to this old post, but I recently ran across this issue and wanted to point out something incorrect (or at least ambiguous) about the description and command you list in...
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