Disk at 100% always

[raj]

Hi Team,

I have moved from esxi 4.1 to proxmox.

I have installed the drivers then copied over the vm image to proxmox.

On proxmox i created the drive as a vmdk.
Renamed that after the creation and copied the esxi image in its place.


Boots up fine and works fine but the disk uasge is always at 100%

Its a windows box but even with linux same isse.

I created another linux server directly on proxmox with .vmdk and that one the disk is utilised at 20% skikes up but comes down.

Would there be any reason why the images that were moved accross use so much of disk?

Cheers,

Raj

 

[dietmar]

I created another linux server directly on proxmox with .vmdk and that one the disk is utilised at 20% skikes up but comes down.

When the disk gets older all free space is at least written once, so there are no more sparse regions.

 

[raj]

so thats normal then

Is there anything I should do to get a better performance?

Cheers,

Raj

 

[tom]

I suggest you do a fresh install of a VM (using virtio and raw virtual disk images) and compare this to your migrated VMs.