Hello,
Independent Persistent disk type is specified when creating a VM, adding a disk to a VM or changing a current disk.
As these are configurations at the disk level so do not require vCenter and can be done via connection to a single host.
Steps to do this can be found here:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.html.hostclient.doc/GUID-77EA87D5-A9...
Bob
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