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Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 28, 2024

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib.

Event if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisionning, it is still a bad practive to overprovision that much storage.

In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage bay side. This means on vCenter you still need a Lun that can provide all the 1,75Tib.
This is not practical at all from an operationnal standpoint.

Moreover in all the storage reports this is still reported as high overprovision and lower the storage score regarding the best practice for best performances.

It would make way more sense to start lower and scale up as needed.

Thanks.

Idea priority Medium