Deploying VMs from an eagerzeroedthick disk

[pg13]

Hi,

I need to provision several VMs as EagerZeroedThick. I created a Template with an Eagerzeroedthick but when I deploy a VM from that template, the VM just gets an ordinary thick disk, not eager. Here is what I did in detail:

1. I created a VM, chosing Support clustering features such as Fault Tolerance, which created a Eagerzeroedthick disk .
2. I confirmed that the disk had been eagerly zeroed by running the command vim-cmd /vmsvc/device.getdevices , which gave me the line eagerlyScrub = true.
3. I then converted this VM to a template.

However, when I deploy a VM from this template and choose as a disk format Same format as source, the resulting disk is not eagerzeroedthick. It is thick, but not eagerzeroed.

Am I doing something wrong , or is it impossible to achieve that, or is it a bug?

Thank you.

Patrick

[gravesg]

Bump.

Cant find definitive information on how to deploy eagerzerothick from a template either.

[rickardnobel]

Was there not on 3.x a problem with that all "deploy-from-template" VMDK:s became eagerzeroedthickdisk? And that was changed in 4.0, but perhaps VMware took the fix a bit too far, so no template deployed disk could become eager-zeroed.

A work around could be to right click the disk and select "inflate" after it has been provisioned, but it does involve some extra step that you might want to avoid.