VMware will write disk if I choose to allocate space disck initially?

I want to use a SSD 512G specially for a virtual machine that will occupy about 400 G disk space available then, so I intend to allocate space at the beginning.

Since the SSD limited writing at the same time, I want to make sure that VMware will not write any allocated disk space where to create the file. VMware will be like that?

Thank you.

As I have already said, pre-allocating won't reduce the number of entries on your SSD. The performance benefits of pre-allocation will be marginal at best, and given that you expect a growth in the use of relatively slow disk I certainly would not bother.

Is there a reason why you don't separate the storage in several discs? At least a boot disk and the network share drive?

What's your backup strategy?

These are more important considerations for what you plan.

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