Thin Provisioning vs Thick Provisioning in VMware
Thin, thick lazy zeroed, or thick eager zeroed? Compare the three VMware disk formats, how each affects performance and capacity, and when to pick which.
Sysadmin Desk Oct 4, 2026 7 min read
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Thin, thick lazy zeroed, or thick eager zeroed? Compare the three VMware disk formats, how each affects performance and capacity, and when to pick which.
Move VMware VMs to Proxmox: export OVF/VMDK, import with qm importovf and importdisk, convert VMDK to qcow2, fix VirtIO drivers, and boot the migrated guest.