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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

by Abhilash G B, Mathias Meyenburg, Cedric Rajendran
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

The virtual machine disk plays a crucial role in the performance and availability of a guest operating system or its applications. Let's look at how the configuration choices actually work and influence the guest OS behavior:

  • Maximum Size: This parameter provides the current estimate of storage space available on the datastore location that is chosen.
  • VM storage policy: This allows for greater control and compliance of the type of storage a virtual machine disk gets in its life cycle. A policy can be configured to ensure the application requirements are satisfied, such as caching and replication.
  • LocationBy default, the virtual machine disk files are stored in the same location as the VM. This is much simpler in terms of ...
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ISBN: 9781787127418