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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. Instead, it is zeroed out on demand 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
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 expand 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 vSAN or Virtual Volumes datastores.
Important If the virtual machine hard disks use different storage policies, the new policy that you
select only applies to non-PMem hard disks. PMem hard disks are migrated to the host-local PMem
datastore of the destination host.
7 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.
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 disable 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.
Note You can use the Advanced option to downgrade from or upgrade to
PMem storage.
b For the virtual machine configuration file and for each virtual disk, select
Browse, and select a datastore or Storage DRS cluster.
Note Configuration files cannot be stored on a PMem datastore.
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.
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