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Hyper-v 100GB virtual disk?

Hi there

I just did a fresh install of the latest XG on a Server 2012R2 Hyper-V platform for testing purposes. I already running UTM 9 for some years... I wonder why the heck the XG blows up the virtual disk to 100GB? At the moment i don't have any traffic on this box, i don't think that this space is already in use. This is quiet inefficient on a virtualization platform. Is there a way to shring this disk or make use of thin provisioning?

Many thanks

martin

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0 OliverPlum over 8 years ago

Hi Martin,

you are using Hyper-V Image right?

If you want to have Thin-Prov or lower capacity on VHD.

Try to use Software Installer in a newly created VM.

greetings,

Olli
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0 MartinVogt over 8 years ago in reply to OliverPlum

Hi Olli

I have used the installer image this time. Thin provisioning (dynamically expanding) doesen't work, because XG formats the volumes at the very beginning of the setup routine an blows it up to appr. 40GB. I assume this is mainly caused by the reporting partition. I tried to use a fixed disk (10GB) this also seems to work, although it isn't optimal.

But thanks anyway, i will do some furhter testing..

martin
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0 lferrara over 8 years ago in reply to MartinVogt

Hi All,

see what Aditya Patel wrote here:

https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/initial-setup/83283/sophos-xg-home-installation-on-apu1d4/311928#311928

so 80 GB of disk space is the minimum.

If you consider that reporting in onboard, 80 or 100 GB are not a huge requirement!
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0 MartinVogt over 8 years ago in reply to lferrara

Normally you're right, but i have the VMs running on SSD amongst other VMs. My point is: There are no reports on this box, obviously the partition is formatted but almost empty. On UTM 9 i never had this problem.
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0 MartinVogt over 8 years ago in reply to lferrara

Normally you're right, but i have the VMs running on SSD amongst other VMs. My point is: There are no reports on this box, obviously the partition is formatted but almost empty. On UTM 9 i never had this problem.
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