Converting a Lazy Zeroed disk to Eager Zeroed Disk

Date: September 17, 2013 Author: Sefer Simsek

Logon to the ESXI Server where the VM is stored using a product like putty.
The following command lists the datastores:

ls/vmfs/volumes

vmware_eagerdisk1

vmware_eagerdisk2

ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01_Internal1/

vmware_eagerdisk3

ls /vmfs/volumes/ESX01_Internal1/RDS2012/

vmware_eagerdisk4

ls vmfstools -k /vmfs/volumes/ESX01_Internal1/RDS2012/RDS2012.vmdk

Use “vmfstools -k”  to convert a Lazy Zeroed disk to a Eagerly Zeroed disk.

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