{"id":3040,"date":"2014-01-30T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/vmware-error-the-unused-disk-blocks-of-the-virtual-machine-disks-have-not-been-scrubbed-on-the-file-system"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","slug":"unused-virtual-machine-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/unused-virtual-machine-disks","title":{"rendered":"The unused disk blocks of the virtual machine Disks have not been scrubbed on the file system VMWare Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unused disk blocks of the virtual machine<\/u><\/h2>\n

While Enabling Fault Tolerance (FT) on virtual Machine, following error occurred.<\/p>\n

Error: <\/b><\/u><\/h4>\n

The unused disk blocks of the virtual machine’s disks have not been scrubbed on the file system.\u00a0 This is needed to support features like Fault Tolerance. <\/b><\/p>\n

Reason of Error:<\/b><\/u><\/h4>\n

Fault Tolerance cannot be enabled on a powered-on virtual machine that has thick formatted or lazy-zeroed <\/b>disks.<\/p>\n

Soultion:<\/b><\/u><\/h4>\n

To enable FT, power off the virtual machine, turn on FT, and power on the virtual machine again<\/b>. This changes the disk format of the virtual machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unused disk blocks of the virtual machine While Enabling Fault Tolerance (FT) on virtual Machine, following error occurred. Error: The unused disk blocks of the virtual machine’s disks have… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[1628],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t