Re: Thin provisioned disk moved to other datastore becomes thick provisioned?

Well, this is certainly a tedious "feature". In my case I just wanted to upgrade a local disk in a lab server and copy the VMs over to a new one before removing the original. Some of my VMs are thin provisioned because they are virtual appliances and often the supplier insists on having large disks as they are sized for production usage (e.g. I've got some load balancers with 100GB disks that only use ~4GB). This has turned what I thought would be a simple job (cp/mv from the console, or a move from the vSphere Client data store browser) into a tedious job using vmkfstools -d thin (unless I'm missing something - I don't have Storage vMotion).