I have been reviewing a number of guides and trying to understand the expected result of creating a lazy zeroed thick VMDK file on a NFS datastore with VAAI enabled? I have done some testing and it appears that lazy zeroed thick will use space within the FlexVol on a NetApp array. Is this the expected behaviour now with the VAAI primitives being supported on NFS?
The old age question of thin on thin, thick on thin or thin or thick seems to be irrelevant with this configuration. If you want thin provisioning on NFS VAAI enabled datastores, you have to do thin on thin. Am I missing something here?