vSphere Virtual Machine Administration - Documentation - VMware

vSphere Virtual Machine Administration
3 Click Next.
Select a Resource
When you deploy a virtual machine, you select the host, cluster, vApp, or resource pool for the virtual machine
to run in. The virtual machine will have access to the resources of the selected object.
For example, a virtual machine has access to the memory and CPU resources of the host on which it resides.
If you select a cluster for the virtual machine, and the administrator has configured the cluster to take advantage
of HA and DRS, the virtual machine will have a greater level of availability.
Procedure
1 Search or browse for the host, cluster, vApp, or resource pool for the virtual machine.
If deploying the virtual machine to the selected location might cause compatibility problems, the problems
appear at the bottom of the window.
2 Click Next.
Select a Datastore
Select the datastore or datastore cluster in which to store the virtual machine configuration files and all of the
virtual disks. Each datastore might have a different size, speed, availability, and other properties. The available
datastores are accessible from the destination resource that you selected. You can select a format for the virtual
machine's disks and assign a storage profile.
Procedure
1 Select the format for the virtual machine's disks and click Next.
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, but is zeroed out on demand at a later time 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 grow to the maximum capacity allocated to it.
2 (Optional) Assign a storage profile from the VM Storage Profile drop-down menu.
Storage profiles define the storage capabilities that are required by the applications running on the virtual
machine.
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