Question about VMWare thin provisioning

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Published on 2010-05-09T17:16:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 17:19 UTC
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I'm playing around with virtual disks and thin provisioning and have a question about it.

I've created several disks and allocated space to with thin provisioning. Is it possible to allocate more disk space than the maximum amount of the datastore space. So that for example, my VM's will stop functioning when the disks slowly start filling up?

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