SOLVED Thick Provisioning on NFS

[Clint Shivers]

I'm trying to add a VM in ESXi to a NFS datastore on my FreeNAS 9.10. When I get to the options for thick/thin provisioning its all greyed out. Looked around found some information about quotas needing to be defined on FreeNAS NFS for thick provisioning. So I added the quota and tried again to no avail. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

 

[joeschmuck]

So are you able to continue creating the VM or are you stopped? The material I saw just said that you would only be able to create a thin provisioned drive, maybe with them all grayed out that is still the final result?

 

[Clint Shivers]

Thanks joeschmuck, I think I got it working now with Thick Provisioning. I was trying to configure the new VM using vSphere and didn't see the notice that said I have to use the web client to create a VM with all the features in 6.0, I've got a thick provisioned machine zeroing the datastore now, will update if it finishes properly. Thank you for the help!!

 

[Clint Shivers]

Yep.... That was it. Use vSphere to configure and it isn't available, use web client and it's there.

 

[joeschmuck]

Ah, yes, ESXi 6.0 did make a few changes. There are pros and cons to this but if you had vCenter (What VMWare wants you to pay for) then it would be super easy. I still use vSphere where I can to manipulate my VMs.