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Re: VM Wasted Disk Space Analysis?

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So we do track guest file system used / free via vmtools and those metrics are available.  Easiest way I can think of is to build a custom heatmap in the vSphere UI showing VM allocation by guest FS free space.  The larger and "red'er" a VM's box the better a candidate for thin provisioning - I think....  all the stuff in my home lab is thin provisioned so I'm trying to test this out - you will notice that even with thin-provisioned you could have a big delta between guest free and VM used.

 

Here's how I set it up....

 

custom heatmap creation thin oppty.PNG

 

And here's my heatmap, before I have thickened any VMs - I'll follow up after I thicken a few up.  Basically the BIGGER the VM box the more datastore it is consuming.  The red means high amount of free guest OS file system space.

 

custom heatmap thin provision oppty.PNG

 

I think that a custom report could also address this.  I'll try to work on that.


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