hi, I am building an application and running on a particular OS, and packaging it into a OVF template. So when you deploy the OVF, you get the virtual machine which runs the application. D...
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hi, I am building an application and running on a particular OS, and packaging it into a OVF template. So when you deploy the OVF, you get the virtual machine which runs the application. During the OVF template deployment, I am prompted to choose "thick eager zero", "thick lazy zero", or "thin" provisioning. Is there possible for me to control what choices are selectable here? For example, I want to gray out the "thin provisioning" option, so that my VM is only created with either eager zero or lazy zero provisioning. Question 2: How much of performance hit, if any, is there with lazy zero as opposed to eager zero? On one hand, I wan to reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy the OVF, and I believe lazy zero might be faster (I could be wrong thought, let me know). But on the other hand, my application is real CPU intensive and requires real-time processing, so does lazy zero impose some performance penalty here? Question 3: If I cannot control selection of provisioning druing the OVF template deployment screens, then is there a point later on during the whole OVF deployment where I can insert code to verify the configuration/properties of the VM that is to be created, so as to detect that the disk size is not what I expect (for example, thick would have been 200 GB, but I detect the storage provisioned is only going to be 50 GB). If I can do that then that would offer me another way to prevent (and disallow) people from deploying the OVF with thin provisioning. thank you, Charles