If you have any VM vdisks on that disk they will be sparse, sparse means that if you for example select 500G for the vdisk size but the OS only uses 50G, it will only occupy 50G on the disk, it can then grow as needed, if it gets copied/moved to another disk without using the flag it will occupy 500G on dest, instead of just 50G.
rsync flag for this is:
--sparse