5.5

Supported Destination Disk Types
Several destination disk types might be available for the selected destination.
Table 2‑6. Destination Disk Types
Destination Available Disk Types
VMware vSphere virtual machine
Thick
Copies the entire source disk size to the
destination, regardless of its used and
free space.
Thin
For managed destinations that support
thin provisioning through GUI, creates
an expanding disk on the destination.
For example, if the source disk size is
10GB, but only 3GB is used, the created
destination disk is 3GB but can expand
to 10GB.
Managed destinations of virtual machine version 10 and
later support disks up to 62TB in size. Earlier virtual
machine versions support up to 2TB disks.
VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine
Pre-
allocated
Copies the entire source disk size to the
destination, regardless of its used and
free space.
Not pre-
allocated
Creates an expanding disk on the
destination. For example, if the source
disk size is 20GB, but only 5GB is used,
the created destination disk is 5GB but
can expand to 20GB. Take this
expansion into account when you
calculate the free disk space on the
destination datastore.
Split pre-
allocated
For disks smaller than 2TB, splits the
source disk into 2GB sections on the
destination.
For disks larger than 2TB, splits the
source disk into 2TB sections on the
destination.
Split not pre-
allocated
For disks smaller than 2TB, creates 2GB
sections on the destination that include
only the real used space on the source
disk. As the destination disk grows,
new 2GB sections are created to
accommodate the new data until the
size reaches that of the original source
disk.
For disks larger than 2TB, creates 2TB
sections on the destination that include
only the real used space on the source
disk. As the destination disk grows,
new 2TB sections are created to
accommodate the new data until the
size reaches that of the original source
disk.
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