What happens when the Used Space hits the Provisioned Space?

[ogaiTT]

I'm working for the first time with VMWare software and while browsing the Virtual machines i saw that the Used Space was about to hit the Provided Space. I was researching about the definition of these 2 and I don't get one strong and reliable definition. Can someone tell exactly what they are and explain to me what happens when the Used Space hits the Provided Space?

Thank you

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Community - Itsounds like your virtual disk are configured as thin provisioned - their size grows as disk space is consumed - when you hit provisioned equal used is a VM will error if it tries to use more disk spce - usually with an out of disk space error - your options are to add more datastores and move the VMs to the new datastore-

[ogaiTT]

Thank you that was helpful.

Just one more thing... I still want those definitions :smileysilly: