Renaming a virtual machine disk (VMDK) via the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) or vSphere CLI (vCLI) Devoted to VMware » Check Disk (Thin/Thick from cmd line) Home > VMware > Check Disk (Thin/Thick from cmd line) I was wondering if there is no vCenter access server and all I have is a ESX console access, how am I going to find whether a VM has a thick disk OR thin disk.
After some research I found this which I would like to share it with everybody. The descriptor file for the VM has a entry which states that the VM is thin OR thick. The same VM, when we convert to thick disk via cmd line OR via VI Client will not have that thinProvisioned = “1” parameter. Cloning individual virtual machine disks via the ESX/ESXi host terminal. Moving or copying virtual disks in a VMware environment. Increasing the size of a disk partition. Resolving the CID mismatch error: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. Extending partitions in Windows using DiskPart.