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Type | The type of the template disk. See Disk Format Information.
To use the disk in the platform, it must have a correct type (not Unknown).
 If you have not added any hypervisors yet, the V2V conversion process will generate conversions for ALL supported hypervisors | Capacity | The hard disk size required for the deployed disk in MB, GB, or TB. See Determine the size of a VM Disk File. - Fixed formats, the capacity is the physical size of the template disk.
- For sparse and compressed formats, the capacity is the provisioning size.
| | File name | Click Select file and use your browser to choose the file to upload. | | Require DS tier | Select Datastore tier will be required when creating a virtual machine to ensure that the user will select a datastore tier. | | Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it | | Controller type | Select a controller type from: IDE, SCSI, SATA (ESXi), and VIRTIO (KVM) | | Controller | On ESXi you can enter a SCSI controller type. The default value is the lsilogic controller. | | Name | The name of the disk |
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Add disk from ISO file
Enter the details of an ISO disk you will upload
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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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