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5 Select the format for the virtual machine's disks.
Option Action
Same format as source
Use the same format as the source virtual machine.
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
Create a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the
virtual disk is allocated during creation. Any data remaining on the
physical device is not erased during creation, but is zeroed out on demand
at a later time on rst write from the virtual machine.
Thick Provision Eager Zeroed
Create a thick disk that supports clustering features such as Fault
Tolerance. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time.
In contrast to the thick provision lazy zeroed format, the data remaining
on the physical device is zeroed out during creation. It might take longer
to create disks in this format than to create other types of disks.
Thin Provision
Use the thin provisioned format. At rst, a thin provisioned disk uses only
as much datastore space as the disk initially needs. If the thin disk needs
more space later, it can grow to the maximum capacity allocated to it.
6 Select a virtual machine storage policy from the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu.
Storage policies specify storage requirements for applications that run on the virtual machine. You can
also select the default policy for Virtual SAN or Virtual Volumes datastores.
7 Select the datastore location where you want to store the virtual machine les.
Option Action
Store all virtual machine files in the
same location on a datastore.
Select a datastore and click Next.
Store all virtual machine files in the
same Storage DRS cluster.
a Select a Storage DRS cluster.
b (Optional) To not use Storage DRS with this virtual machine, select
Disable Storage DRS for this virtual machine and select a datastore
within the Storage DRS cluster.
c Click Next.
Store virtual machine configuration
files and disks in separate
locations.
a Click Advanced.
b For the virtual machine conguration le and for each virtual disk,
select Browse, and select a datastore or Storage DRS cluster.
c (Optional) If you selected a Storage DRS cluster and do not want to use
Storage DRS with this virtual machine, select Disable Storage DRS for
this virtual machine and select a datastore within the Storage DRS
cluster.
d Click Next.
8 Select a destination network for all VM network adapters and click Next.
You can click Advanced to select a new destination network for each VM network adapter.
You can migrate a virtual machine networks to another distributed switch in the same or to another
data center or vCenter Server.
9 Review the information on the Review Selections page and click Finish.
vCenter Server moves the virtual machine to the new host or storage location.
Event messages appear in the Events tab. The data displayed on the Summary tab shows the status and
state throughout the migration. If errors occur during migration, the virtual machines revert to their original
states and locations.
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