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** Changed in: nova
       Status: New => Opinion

** Changed in: nova
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602740

Title:
  VMware: Sparse disks get attached to the instance as lazy zeroed thick
  disks instead of thin provisioned disks

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Description
  ===========
  As per the documentation "Sparse disks get imported from the OpenStack Image service into ESX as thin provisioned disks"

  http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/vmware.html

  But its being set as lazy zeroedthick disk.

  Steps to reproduce
  ==================
  1) Upload a sparse disk and set the the vmware_disktype="sparse".
  2) Create an instance
  3) Edit the VM from vsphere client, disk provisioning type will be displayed as 
  "Thick provision lazy zeroed"

  
  Expected result
  ===============
  Disk provisioning can be Thin provision/ sparse provision.

  Actual result
  =============
  disk provisioning type is set as "Thick provision lazy zeroed"

  Environment
  ===========
  1. Devstack stable/mitaka

  2. Which hypervisor did you use?
     VMWare

  3. What's the version of that?
     5.5

  
  Logs & Configs
  ==============
  attaching the snapshot

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