<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">At eGroup we had a LABMANAGER virtual machine with a 40GB vmdk hard drive - Fully allocated! (Thanks to Jason for this)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">However, only 6.5GB was in use – 84% free space – but hogging up a full 40GB on the production vmfs datastore! (Thanks to Jason for this)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I detached this from the inventory of our 3.5 environment, and re-attached to the inventory of our new vSphere cluster.  I could do this easily since both the 3.5 and 4.0 clusters see the same vmfs datastores!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I then executed a "migration" (fancy new Wizard for both VMotion and SVMotion) within vSphere 4 to “migrate” the virtual machine to a t-pro virtual disk device (t-pro=thin provisioned – my new “shizzle term” for it)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">BEFORE:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">AFTER:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Very nice!!</span></p>
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