It’s not that often you see honesty from a software company, at least not entirely about everything they can/can’t do. Usually I like to blame this on the sales department trying to get that sale. However, in this case, it really is the software developers being totally honest.
Whilst trying to build a new disk in vmware for one of my servers, it decided to tell me something useful…
Creating monolithic preallocated disk
It sure was, well, pretty large anyway… 20GB.