Performance Study of VMware Thin Provisioning

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VMware

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January 18, 2010

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Thin provisioning allows virtual disks to allocate and commit storage space on demand. This paper presents a performance study of thin-provisioned disks in a VMware vSphere test environment. The test results show that thin disks perform as well as thick disks, even under I/O-intensive workloads.