Explosion of file size when the VM between moving/copying data store

I just got my first setting dedicated the SAN unit in my ESXi infrastructure.

I have set up and now my ESXi server got this new available data store.

Initially, virtual machines when running on the local HDD SAS.

I'm trying to move virtual machines between the 'old' DS to the new using the DS browser.

When copy/moving of the unit of SAN iSCSI VMs to my HARD drive, I'm done with a HUGE vmdk file.

Let's say that my original files are approximately 35 GB, when the process of copy/move this virtual machine to the no new DS, I get 250GB which is the size configured my virtual HARD disk...

I'm I missing something here (obviously)?

Any help/info would be greatly appreciated.

Concerning

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André

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