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What is the custom property which determine the Disk Provisoning Type?

Hello ,

I am wondering what would be the custom property which determines the Disk Provisioning type while building the VM. I had noticed, the VMs which are cloned with VM Template with Thin provisoning get thin provisioned Disk however if we add addtional disk to the VM from vCAC, they get provisioned as 'Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed' which i do not want but i wanted to control this Type.

I am sure there should be property holding value for the same but i am not able to find it, has anyone used it or aware of ?

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MG

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VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision = true / false

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VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision = true / false

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I know this is an old thread, but I had a similar question. I know this specifies thin or not.  Is there a way to force new disks to be thick provision eager zeroed?  Mine are coming in as thick provision lazy zeroed.

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Hi sbeaver​ and Friends,

What I found in "https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.3/vrealize-automation-73-custom-properties.pdf"

VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision

Determines whether thin provisioning is used on ESX compute resources using local or iSCSI storage. Set to True to use thin provisioning. Set to False to use standard provisioning. This property is for virtual provisioning.

It only effecting to local or iSCSI storage?

We are using FC SAN storage.

Please kindly advise and waiting your reply. Thank you.

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It only effecting to local or iSCSI storage? either or   Works for both

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Hi sbeaver and Friends,

How about FC SAN?

Thank you.

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jgiordan
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Hello,

Do you have a printscreen of this configuration? Did you do that on blueprint properties? I need to do that

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daphnissov
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VirtualMachine.Admin.* custom properties get set on the machine object itself.

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