Re: [Users] Clarification - Thin Disk
On 12/19/2013 07:54 AM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
Hello,
could someone clarify the term "thin disk" in the context of Templates.
Up to now for me a thin disk is space that is allocated on demand.
But if I create VM from a template and use type "Thin" it must be a
little bit different. The newly created VM will operate on the frozen
template data plus some delta file that stores the changed block.
Is that right? Shouldn't that be a "linked-disk"?
thin doesn't mean it has a snapshot, only its not pre-allocating the
entire storage needed iirc.
Extra question: Why can't I move a (thin provisioned) template disk
and instead have to copy it and delete it afterwards?
just wasn't a prominent use case to implement i guess (would also need
to check no VMs/disks derive from the template of course).