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Option Action
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 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.
2 (Optional) Select a storage policy from the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu.
Storage policies specify storage requirements for applications that run on the virtual machine.
3 Select a datastore location for the virtual disk.
Option Action
Store the virtual disk and virtual
machine configuration files in the
same location on a datastore.
Select Store with the virtual machine from the Location drop-down menu.
Store the disk in a separate datastore
location.
Select Browse from the Location drop-down menu, and select a datastore for
the disk.
Store all virtual machine files in the
same datastore cluster.
a Select Browse from the Location drop-down menu and select a datastore
cluster for the disk.
b (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.
4 Click Next.
Select Clone Options
You can optionally select to customize the guest operating system, customize the virtual machine's
hardware, and turn on the virtual machine when you complete the creation procedure. You can customize
the guest operating system to change properties, such as the computer name, and network and license
settings, which helps prevent conflicts that can result if you deploy virtual machines with identical settings.
You can add a CD device such as an ISO file to install the guest operating system or you can reconfigure
the virtual machine storage or networking, before you deploy the virtual machine.
Note If you opened the wizard from an object other than a virtual machine or template, the Select Clone
Options page does not appear. These options are available on a different page of the wizard.
Procedure
1 Select Customize the Operating System.
2 Select Customize this virtual machine's hardware.
3 Select Power on virtual machine after creation.
4 Click Next.
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