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Procedure
1 Create a virtual machine.
a Right-click any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a data
center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host, and select New Virtual Machine.
b Select Create a new virtual machine and click Next.
c Follow the steps required to create a virtual machine.
2 Configure the thin virtual disk.
a On the Customize Hardware page, click the Virtual Hardware tab.
b Click the New Hard disk triangle to expand the hard disk options.
c (Optional) Adjust the default disk size.
With a thin virtual disk, the disk size value shows how much space is provisioned and guaranteed
to the disk. At the beginning, the virtual disk might not use the entire provisioned space. The
actual storage use value can be less than the size of the virtual disk.
d Select Thin Provision for Disk Provisioning.
3 Finish the virtual machine creation.
You created a virtual machine with a disk in the thin format.
What to do next
If you created a virtual disk in the thin format, you can later inflate it to its full size.
View Virtual Machine Storage Resources
You can view how datastore storage space is allocated for your virtual machines.
Procedure
1 Browse to the virtual machine.
2 Double-click the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.
3 Review the storage use information in the upper right area of the Summary tab.
Storage Usage shows how much datastore space is occupied by virtual machine files, including
configuration and log files, snapshots, virtual disks, and so on. When the virtual machine is running, the
used storage space also includes swap files.
For virtual machines with thin disks, the actual storage use value might be less than the size of the virtual
disk.
Determine the Disk Format of a Virtual Machine
You can determine whether your virtual disk is in thick or thin format.
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