I know the difference between sparse and compressed images and I think that compressed images is better to move images from a central repository to a Hypervisor.
More over, vmdk (Compressed) is defined like the standard disk used in OVF specification.
More over, other hypervisor like virtualbox supports this vmdk compressed format.
My question is if Exists the possiblity to move a compressed vmdk image to ESXi hypervisor and work with it (Maybe exists an on-line conversion in the api, I really don't know). Or think in an alternative.
ESX has the same problem?
Thank you very much