Thin provisioning of virtual disks has been a quiet benefit to IT administrators working in virtual environments. ย In the recent past of thick provisioned storage as the only option (still common in non-virtualized, local storage environments), administrators made educated guesses about the amount of disk space their systems would need. ย Only in the 2008 Server family did Microsoft even include operating system tools to expand disk partitions, an incentive to over-provision storage. (more…)