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8 Under Disk Provisioning, select the Thin provisioned radio buon and click Next.
9 On the Ready to complete page of the New Virtual Machine wizard, review the conguration seings
for the virtual machine and click Finish to save your seings.
View Virtual Machine Storage Resources in the VMware Host Client
You can view how datastore storage space is allocated for your virtual machines in the VMware Host Client.
Resource Consumption shows how much datastore space is occupied by virtual machine les, including
conguration les, log les, snapshots, virtual disks, and so on. When the virtual machine is running, the
used storage space also includes swap les.
For virtual machines with thin disks, the actual storage usage value might be less than the size of the virtual
disk.
Procedure
1 Click the virtual machine in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Review the Resource Consumption information in the lower right area of the virtual machine summary
page.
Determine the Disk Format of a Virtual Machine in VMware Host Client
You can determine whether your virtual disk is provisioned in thick or thin format.
Procedure
1 Right-click the virtual machine in the VMware Host Client inventory and select Edit .
2 On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Hard disk.
The Type text box shows the format of your virtual disk.
Managing Storage Adapters in the VMware Host Client
When you connect to a host or to vCenter Server by using the VMware Host Client, you can perform various
tasks on your storage adapters, such as conguring various iSCSI components .
When you enable iSCSI on the host that you are managing in your VMware Host Client environment, you
can congure and add new network port bindings, static and dynamic targets, you can manage CHAP
authentication, and congure various advanced seings on your host storage.
View Storage Adapters in the VMware Host Client
View the storage adapters that your host uses and related information.
Procedure
1 Click Storage in the VMware Host Client inventory and click Adapters.
All storage adapters available to the host are listed under Adapters.
2 To view details for a specic adapter, select the adapter from the list.
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