Set the provisioning mode of a VM disk

Mount eager zeroed storage volumes as disks to VMs that use shared storage to improve VM performance.

To set the provisioning mode of a storage volume:

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Hosts.

  1. Select a host, and then click the Storage tab.

  1. Select a storage pool.

  1. Create a storage volume, and set its provisioning mode to eager zeroed.

Figure-1 Setting the provisioning mode

 

  1. Mount the storage volumes to VMs.