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6 Select the datastore location where you want to store the virtual machine files.
Option Action
Store all virtual machine files in the
same location on a datastore.
a (Optional) Apply a virtual machine storage policy for the virtual machine home
files and the virtual disks from the VM storage policy drop-down menu.
The list shows which datastores are compatible and which are incompatible
with the selected virtual machine storage policy.
b Select a datastore and click Next.
Store all virtual machine files in the
same datastore cluster.
a (Optional) Apply a virtual machine storage policy for the virtual machine home
files and the virtual disks from the VM storage policy drop-down menu.
The list shows which datastores are compatible and which are incompatible
with the selected virtual machine storage profile.
b Select a datastore cluster.
c (Optional) If you 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 datastore cluster.
d Click Next.
Store virtual machine configuration
files and disks in separate locations.
a Click Advanced.
b For the virtual machine configuration file and for each virtual disk, click
Browse and select a datastore or datastore cluster.
c (Optional) Apply a virtual machine storage policy from the VM storage profile
drop-down menu.
The list shows which datastores are compatible and which are incompatible
with the selected virtual machine storage policy.
d (Optional) If you selected a datastore 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 datastore cluster.
e Click Next.
7 Select the format for the virtual machine's disks and click Next.
Option Action
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 first 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
flat format, the data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out during
creation. It might take much longer to create disks in this format than to create
other types of disks.
Thin Provision Use the thin provisioned format. At first, 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.
8 In the Shares drop-down menu, select a value for the shares to allocate to the virtual disk.
Shares is a value that represents the relative metric for controlling disk bandwidth. The values Low,
Normal, High, and Custom are compared to the sum of all shares of all virtual machines on the host.
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