Lazy Zeroed Provisioning on NFS VAAI

Hi all,

Does anybody have tried a thick (lazy zeroed) provisioning using NFS VAAI?

I’ve got somewhat urgent question from my customer. I’ve done some testing by myself and came out with the same result.

Would anybody please advise me whether there is some known bug for this or with any other comment? Any advice would be very very appreciated.

• My ESXi host with NFS VAAI plug-in is connected to a VNX with VNX OE for File 7.0.51-3 (which satisfies the requirement for NFS VAAI). 
• When creating a VM on this host, I chose to use “Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed”.
  
  
• However, when I look at the VM’s property, it displays “Thick Provision Eager Zeroed”.
  
  

I’m wondering whether this is just a display issue or might be a critically issue that lazy zeroed provisioning is not working properly…

Thank you in advance and best regards!

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  Motoo Ichikawa

  EMC Japan

  vSpecialist Sr. Technology Consultant

  Motoo.Ichikawa@emc.com

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