VMware VCENTER CONVERTER EN-000158-02 - Manual (Page 48)

Table 4-2. Destination Disk Types
Destination Available Disk Types
VMware Infrastructure virtual machine
Flat Copies the entire source disk size to the
destination, regardless of its used and
free space.
Thin For managed destinations that support
thin provisioning, creates an expanding
disk on the destination. For example, if
the source disk size is 10GB, but only 3GB
are used space, the created destination
disk is 3GB but potentially expands to
10GB.
VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine
Pre-
allocated Copies the entire source disk size to the
destination, regardless of its used and
free space.
Not pre-
allocated Creates an expanding disk on the
destination. For example, if the source
disk size is 20GB, but only 5GB are used
space, the created destination disk is 5GB
but potentially expands to 20GB. Take
this measurement into account when you
calculate the free disk space on the
destination datastore.
2GB Split
pre-
allocated Splits the source disk into 2GB sections
on the destination.
2GB Split not
pre-
allocated Creates 2GB sections on the destination
that include only the real used space on
the source disk. As the destination disk
grows, new 2GB sections are created to
accommodate the new data until the
original source disk size is reached.
Distribute Disks over Several Datastores
For managed destinations, disk-based cloning allows you to copy virtual disks to different datastores within
your virtual environment.
Prerequisites
The destination for the virtual machine must have more than one datastore. The target datastores must be
online and connected when the target virtual machine starts up.
Disk-based cloning is not supported for physical machine sources.
For Linux hosts, you can perform only disk-based cloning.
Procedure
1 On the View/Edit Options page, click Data to copy in the left pane.
2 From the Data to copy drop-down menu, select Copy all disks and maintain layout.
A list of all virtual disks in the source machine appears.
3 In the Disk column, select a source virtual disk.
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