Think of Windows updates, not the greatest example but it will do. Rather than overwriting files like we'd get with LM VMs, everything is going into the CoW. Space usage++ Even in Lab Manager, we have Linked Clone "trees" that are at times hundreds of GB, and sometimes into the TB In size and...
One of the big "features" added to vCloud Director that allows it "parity" when compared to the outgoing Lab Manager is the re-introduction of Linked Clones. These Copy-On-Write (CoW) disks provide for VMs that are actually little more than differencing disks from a base disk.
Well, in LM...