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VMware has a great new performance whitepaper on thin vs thick disk performance:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_thinprov_perf.pdf
The summary is there is no performance impact when using thin provisioned disks compared to thick disks with VMware.
NetApp has a great resource for Thin vs Thick Basics:
http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/2009/10/vce-101-thin-provisioning-part-1-the-basics.html )
and a followup article looking at the advantages of de-dup and thin provisioning at the array level:
http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/2009/10/vce-101-thin-provisioning-part-2-going-beyond.html )
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