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Determine the VMFS disk space a thin provisioned virtual machine disk consumes

I was asked by a customer the other day how to find out, using the ESXi command line, how much disk space a thin provisioned virtual machine disk consumes. Back in the ESX days you used the du command to query the virtual machine disk and in ESXi, version 5.5, you need to use the  stat command. Fot this …

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