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Are Disks in AWS Thin Provisioned?

Maya G
April 29, 2020 10:39:42 AM

I’m opening this question on behalf of Steve. H:

When protecting VMs from vCenter to AWS are they thin provisioned in AWS?

And is this the case if the VM is thick provisioned in vCenter?

Contara T
April 29, 2020 02:54:30 PM

Hello,

Contara from Zerto Support.

In the VPG Storage section, there is no selection to mark the storage as “Thin”, only “Temp”. So, S3 does not allow Thin/Thick selection.

See page 156

http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20vSphere%20Administration%20Guide.pdf?cb=1588170905

Thank you.

Steve H
May 1, 2020 03:29:22 AM

Thank you for the reply,

To clarify, if a VMDK in vCenter is thin provisioned to 1tb but only using 100gb within the OS, how much space will this use up in AWS? 1TB or 100GB?

The same question for if the VMDK in vCenter is thick provisioned at 1tb, but only using 100gb within the OS, how much space will this use up in AWS? 1TB or 100GB?

thanks,

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