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6 On the Select storage page, define where and how to store the files for the deployed OVF or OVA
template.
a Select the disk format for the virtual machine virtual disks.
Format Description
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed 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 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.
Thin Provision Use this format to save storage space. For the thin disk, you provision as
much datastore space as the disk requires based on the value that you enter
for the disk size. However, the thin disk starts small and at first, uses only as
much datastore space as the disk needs for its initial operations.
b Select a VM Storage Policy.
This option is available only if storage policies are enabled on the destination resource.
c (Optional) Enable the Show datastores from Storage DRS clusters check box to choose
individual datastores from Storage DRS clusters for the initial placement of the virtual machine.
d Select a datastore to store the deployed OVF or OVA template.
The configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a datastore large
enough to accommodate the virtual machine or vApp and all associated virtual disk files.
Note If you want to use the API calls to deploy an OVF template that contains vPMem hard disks
and that has been exported from a content library, consult https://ikb.vmware.com/s/article/52370.
7 On the Select networks page, select a source network and map it to a destination network. Click
Next.
The Source Network column lists all networks that are defined in the OVF or OVA template.
8 On the Ready to complete page, review the page and click Finish.
A new task for creating the virtual machine appears in the Recent Tasks pane. After the task is complete,
the new virtual machine is created on the selected resource.
Export an OVF Template
An OVF template captures the state of a virtual machine or vApp into a self-contained package. The disk
files are stored in a compressed, sparse format.
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