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.
- Location: By default, the virtual machine disk files are stored in the same location as the VM. This is much simpler in terms of ...