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4 In the Type column, select the disk type from the drop-down menu.
The options depend on the source machine you select.
Available Disk Type Description
Flat
Copies the entire source disk size to the destination, regardless of its used
and free space.
Thin
Creates a thin provisioned disk. This option is available for managed
destinations that support thin provisioning.
5 In the Target Datastore column, use the drop-down menus to select a destination datastore for each disk.
6 (Optional) To change the datastore to accommodate the *.vmx destination configuration file, click Back
and select the datastore from the drop-down menu.
This menu appears only for virtual machine destinations in a VMware virtual infrastructure.
7 Click Next to view a summary of the conversion task.
8 Click Finish to add the task to the task list.
The target virtual disks are saved to the datastores you specified in the conversion task.
Distribute Volumes over Several Datastores
To ease storage management, you can use the View/Edit Options page to migrate to separate disks all volumes
except the active and system volumes.
You can convert individual volumes and corresponding virtual disks and place the individual disks on
different datastores. This ability allows you to have more direct control over storage limitations. You can create
a separate virtual disk for each volume for all sources, except .ovf source images. Volume-based cloning
depends on the operating system of the host machine. It is not supported for Linux hosts. Volume-based cloning
is also the only possible cloning type for physical machine sources.
Volume-based cloning allows you to choose which volumes to copy to the destination virtual disks, and to
store separate source volumes in separate virtual disks. When you use managed destinations, you can select
different datastores for the destination virtual disks.
Prerequisites
To change datastores, the virtual machine destination must have more than one datastore.
Procedure
1 On the View/Edit Options page, click Data to copy in the left pane.
2 From the Data copy type drop-down menu, select Select volumes to copy.
A list of all source volumes appears.
3 (Optional) To change the datastore to accommodate the *.vmx destination configuration file, click Back
and select the datastore from the drop-down menu.
This menu appears only for virtual machine destinations in a VMware infrastructure.
4 Modify the settings in the source volumes list.
5 (Optional) To save disk space on the destination, select Ignore page file and hibernation file.
This optimization depends on the source operating system. This optimization saves disk space on the
destination virtual machine by not copying to it the page file and hibernation file.
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