Hi
I've build a vCloud environment for internal use by our own consultants for testing and playing with new products. Since we don't need performance, I've enabled Fast Cloning and Thin Provisioning for the only OrgVDC in use and I'm very surprised by how soon vCloud starts complaining about not enough space available.
It "feels" as if always the full clones and full disk sizes are used in calculations instead of at least allowing a little over commitment of storage.
Let me show you all the layers:
VMFS info from vCloud admin page:
VMFS041 = Total Cap 1068GB - Used Cap 143GB - Available Cap 925GB - Provisioned Cap 638GB - Requested Storage 258GB
VMFS042 = Total Cap 2046GB - Used Cap 766GB - Available Cap 1280GB - Provisioned Cap 3713GB - Requested Storage 1668GB
VMFS043 = Total Cap 1023GB - Used Cap 104GB - Available Cap 919GB - Provisioned Cap 262GB - Requested Storage 239GB
These are combined into a storage profile named "Normal IO - R5"
The three datastores are 4137GB in total of which 1013GB is used.
At Org level, there is on OrgVDC-Consultants using the Pay-as-you-Go model. When i open the properties page of the OrgVDC-Consultant, I can see that the storage profile has an "unlimited allocation" and 2214GB used allocation. Thin Provisioning and Fast Provisioning have both been enabled.
Would seem rather healthy, using only 1013GB of 4137GB but still vCloud seems to have come to a halt. When trying to add a 2nd nic to an existing VM, I get this error: