Description of problem:Reconfiguring a vm from vmware by adding a thick provisioned disk shows as thin provisioned afterwards Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):5.8.0.4 How reproducible:100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.login to appliance 2.add vsphere provider 3.create vm 4.reconfigure vm adding thick provisioned disk 5.look at vmware disks after completion Actual results:all added disks show as Thin Expected results:Thick provisioned shown Additional info: This was ran against a powered off vm
Created attachment 1262596 [details] thick disk was added.
I was able to add a thick disk without any issue. However according to VMware document: On NFS datastores that do not support Hardware Acceleration, only thin format is available. So please make sure the datastore that the new disk is added to supports thick disk format.
Hi Lucy, Just checked this and you are correct, it seems the datastore needs to have hardware acceleration support to add thick provision disks. So with that in mind if the datastore does not support 'Hardware Acceleration' should we not see an error message in cfme rather than just forcing the disk type to be a thin provision? Thanks, Luke
This seems the same issue as BZ #1380782. Adam is working on collecting and storing the info about hardware acceleration support of a datastore into our DB. Then UI may display the thick/thin disk format according to what are supported by the datastore.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1380782 ***