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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

Capacity

The deployed size of the hard disk and units

Datastore tier

Only available for existing disks

Datastore tier will be required...

Select this checkbox to indicate that the user must select a datastore tier while creating a VM.
The user will require the privilege to manage hard disks in order to create a VM

Allocation type

Optional. Allocation type of the disk.

Controller type

The controller type of disk

Controller

Optional for SCSI controllers only. See Template disk controllers for SCSI

Name

The name of the hard disk

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