6.5.1

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 rst, 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.
5 Assign a storage policy from the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu.
Storage policies dene the storage capabilities that are required by the applications running on the
virtual machine.
6 Select the datastore location where you want to store the virtual machine les.
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.
b For the virtual machine conguration le and for each virtual disk,
select Browse, and select a datastore or Storage DRS cluster.
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.
7 Select a destination network for all VM network adapters connected to a valid source network and click
Next.
You can click Advanced to select a new destination network for each VM network adapter connected to
a valid source network.
You can migrate a virtual machine network to another distributed switch in the same or to another data
center or vCenter Server.
8 Select the migration priority level and click Next.
Option Description
Schedule vMotion with high priority
vCenter Server aempts to reserve resources on both the source and
destination hosts to be shared among all concurrent migrations with
vMotion. vCenter Server grants a larger share of host CPU resources. If
sucient CPU resources are not immediately available, vMotion is not
initiated.
Schedule regular vMotion
vCenter Server reserves resources on both the source and destination hosts
to be shared among all concurrent migration with vMotion. vCenter Server
grants a smaller share of host CPU resources. If there is a lack of CPU
resources, the duration of vMotion can be extended.
9 Review the information on the Review Selections page and click Finish.
vCenter Server moves the virtual machine to the new host or storage location.
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