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> Although I understood the difference I did not understand when to use them.
Let me add some important details that you do not hear every where:
In case you use a standalone ESXi host with local storage only and you run into a problem with the VMFS-filesystem the major difference between the 3 types is:

provisioning typechances to recover after a VMFS-corruption
Eager zeroed thickgood - if the vmdk is not fragmented it can be recovered without any loss
Lazy zeroed thickgood - if the vmdk is not fragmented it can be recovered but the result is dirty
Thinvery poor - a thin provisioned vmdk without healthy VMFS-metadata is nothing but a large pile of garbage


Ulli


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