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soe9
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‎02-19-2018 03:17 AM
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Please advise how to provision or configure hard disk type of think or thin from vRA

Hi 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?

I would like to have thick or thin new hard disk provision from vRA.

I am using FC SAN storage.

Please kindly advise and waiting your reply. Thank you.

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sbeaver
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‎02-19-2018 06:56 AM
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VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision  sets the type of vmdk disk file is used on what ever storage the vm is sitting on .  Yes it work with FC SAN

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sbeaver
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‎02-19-2018 04:37 AM
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It works for either and or both.  That is the setting you need to use

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soe9
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‎02-19-2018 05:55 AM
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Hi sbeaver and Friends,

How about FC SAN?

Thank you.

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sbeaver
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‎02-19-2018 06:56 AM
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VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision  sets the type of vmdk disk file is used on what ever storage the vm is sitting on .  Yes it work with FC SAN

Steve Beaver
VMware Communities User Moderator
VMware vExpert 2009 - 2020
VMware NSX vExpert - 2019 - 2020
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Co-Author of "VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center"
(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach
Come check out my blog: [www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog|http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/]
Come follow me on twitter http://www.twitter.com/sbeaver

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soe9
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‎02-19-2018 03:30 PM
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Noted and thank you so much.

I will try in my environment.

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ehlomarcus
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‎02-26-2018 12:54 PM
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Hi

I believe that using "VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision" will only do "Thin" or "Lazy-zeroed".

If you need to use "Eager-zeroed" then you must use "VirtualMachine.Admin.EagerZero" instead.

I use Clone workflow to deploy machines, and with that I get two EagerZero disks as that is what I've set in the template. If I create additional disks within a blueprint, then I need the "VirtualMachine.Admin.EagerZero" to make sure that the additional disks are the same, and not being created as "Lazy-zeroed" as that is the default.

//Marcus

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