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Disable Hardware Acceleration for Block Storage Devices in the
VMware Host Client
Host hardware acceleration for block storage devices is enabled by default on all hosts. You can use the
VMware Host Client advanced seings to disable hardware acceleration.
Changing advanced seings is considered unsupported unless VMware Technical Support instructs you to
do so.
Prerequisites
Power o the virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Right-click the virtual machine in the list and select Edit  from the drop-down menu.
3 On the VM Options tab, expand Advanced.
4 Under , select Disable acceleration.
5 Click Save.
Storage Thin Provisioning in the VMware Host Client
With ESXi, you can use two models of thin provisioning, array-level and virtual-disk level thin provisioning.
Thin provisioning is a method that optimizes storage utilization by allocating storage space in a exible on-
demand manner. Thin provisioning contrasts with the traditional model, called thick provisioning. With
thick provisioning, a large amount of storage space is provided in advance in anticipation of future storage
needs. However, the space might remain unused causing underutilization of storage capacity.
The VMware thin provisioning features help you eliminate storage underutilization problems at the
datastore and storage array level.
Create Thin Provisioned Virtual Disks in the VMware Host Client
To save storage space, you can create thin provisioned virtual disks. The thin provisioned virtual disk starts
small and grows as more disk space is required. You can create thin disks only on the datastores that
support disk-level thin provisioning.
The following procedure assumes that you are creating a new virtual machine. For more information, see
“Creating a Virtual Machine in the VMware Host Client,” on page 33.
Procedure
1 Right-click Host in the VMware Host Client inventory and select Create/Register VM.
The New Virtual Machine wizard opens.
2 Select a method for adding a new virtual machine on the host and click Next.
3 Enter a name for your virtual machine.
4 Select the virtual machine compatibility from the Compatibility drop-down menu.
5 Select a guest operating system version from the Guest OS version drop-down menu and click Next.
6 From the list of accessible datastores on the Select storage page of the New Virtual Machine wizard,
select the destination datastore for the virtual machine conguration les and all of the virtual disks.
7 On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Hard disk.
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