vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Custom Property of the Day #3: Thin Provisioning

From the archive. Originally published on dailyhypervisor.com on April 20, 2013.

POTD #3 Thin Provision vCAC version: 5.1  Property Name   VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision Property Description   This can be used with vCenter provisioning as well Hyper-V provisioning. This property is used to specific if yo would like you virtual machine to be thick or thin provisioned with values of True or False. If True your machine will be thin-provisioned, if False it will be thick provisioned. If not specified the default is to use thin provisioing.   Property Usage   This property can can only be used with virtual provisioning to vCenter or Hyper-V through SCVMM   Usage: PropertyNme = VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision    Property value = True or False   Recommended Placement Common placement for this property is at the Blueprint.