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4 On the Select storage page, select the datastore or datastore cluster in which to store the virtual
machine configuration files and all of the virtual disks. Click Next.
Option Description
Clone a virtual machine that has
vPMem hard disks
a Choose the type of storage for the template by selecting the Standard, the
PMem, or the Hybrid radio button.
If you select the Standard mode, all virtual disks will be stored on a standard
datastore.
If you select the PMem mode, all virtual disks will be stored on the host-local
PMem datastore. Configuration files cannot be stored ona PMem datastore
and you must additionally select a regular datastore for the configuration files
of the virtual machine.
If you select the Hybrid mode, all PMem virtual disks will remain stored on a
PMem datastore. Non-PMem disks are affected by your choice of a VM
storage policy and datastore or datastore cluster.
For more information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the
vSphere Resource Management guide.
b (Optional) From the Select virtual disk format drop-down menu, select a
new virtual disk format for the template or keep the same format as the
source virtual machine.
c (Optional) From the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu, select a virtual
machine storage policy or leave the default one.
d Select a datastore or a datastore cluster.
e Select the Disable Storage DRS for this virtual machine check box if you
do not want to use storage DRS with the virtual machine.
f (Optional) Turn on the Configure per disk option to select a separate
datastore or a datastore cluster for the template configuration file and for
each virtual disk.
Note You can use the Configure per disk option to convert a PMem hard
disk to a regular one, but that change might cause performance issues. You
can also convert a standard hard disk to a PMem hard disk.
Clone a virtual machine that does not
have vPMem hard disks
a Select the disk format for the virtual machine virtual disks.
Same format as source uses the same disk format as the source virtual
machine.
The Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed format creates a virtual disk in a default
thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual
disk is created. Data remaining on the physical device is not erased during
creation, but is zeroed out later, on demand, on first write from the virtual
machine.
Thick Provision Eager Zeroed is a type of thick virtual disk that supports
clustering features such as Fault tolerance. Space required for the virtual disk
is allocated at creation time. In contrast to the flat format, the data remaining
on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. It might
take much longer to create disks in this format than to create other types o
disks.
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