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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...
View ArticleBy: Ralf
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.
View ArticleBy: Ralf
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...
View ArticleBy: Patrick Long
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...
View ArticleBy: swiftangelus
FYI, when running the vmkfstools to extend as eagerzeroedthick VAAI is not used.
View ArticleBy: Steve
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...
View ArticleBy: palong
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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