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- Select the Disk
- Click the pencil Edit button and make changes as described below
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| title | Click here to display details of edit virtual machine template disk |
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Type | The disk type of the template. If the type is incorrect or UNKNOWN, you cannot deploy a VM with the disk. See Disk Format Information. | Capacity | The hard disk space that is required to deploy this disk. See Determining the size of a VM Disk File. | | Capacity units | MB, GB, or TB | | File name | To download the disk, click Download beside the file name | | Datastore tier | To set the storage service level of the template disk, select a Datastore tier. You can modify this value in a VM before you deploy it | Datastore tier will be required
while creating a virtual machine | Optional. The user will require privileges to select a datastore tier in order to create a VM | | Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it | | Controller type | If you change the controller type your VM may not boot. The user can modify this value after they create a VM and before they deploy it. | | Controller | On ESXi for SCSI - You can use multiple controllers on a VM and you can change the controller, even after deploy
- The default value is lsilogic or a value set by the system administrator
See Template disk controllers for SCSI | | Name | Hard disk name |
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Delete a template disk
Before you begin, check that the template is not in use. A template is in use if it has deployed VMs or dependent instances.
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