clone a virtual machine and incorporate eagerzeroedthick
I want to create a mscs cluster. I have a 2003 company vm I want to clone for nodes. How can I clone and close up with eagerzeroedthick discs?
You will want to use vmkfstools and pass eagerzeroedthick as the format disk as follows:
vmkfstools -i-d eagerzeroedthick
for example
vmkfstools-i ' \[datastore1\] vm1/vm1.vmdk ' eagerzeroedthick d ' vm1_clone/vm1_clone.vmdk \[datastore1\].
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