| Name | Description |
| eagerZeroedThick |
An eager zeroed thick disk has all space allocated and wiped clean
of any previous contents on the physical media at creation time.
Such disks may take longer time during creation compared to other
disk formats.
Since vSphere API 5.0
|
| flat |
Depending on the host type, Flat is mapped to either
MonolithicFlat or Thick.
|
| monolithicFlat |
A preallocated monolithic disk. Disks in this format can be used with
other VMware products.
|
| monolithicSparse |
A sparse (allocate on demand) monolithic disk. Disks in this format can
be used with other VMware products.
|
| seSparse |
A sparse (allocate on demand) format with additional space
optimizations.
Since vSphere API 5.1
|
| sparse |
Depending on the host type, Sparse is mapped to either
MonolithicSparse or Thin.
|
| thick |
A thick disk has all space allocated at creation time
and the space is zeroed on demand as the space is used.
|
| thin |
Space required for thin-provisioned virtual disk is allocated and
zeroed on demand as the space is used.
|
| twoGbMaxExtentFlat |
A preallocated disk with 2GB maximum extent size. Disks in this format
can be used with other VMware products. The 2GB extent size
makes these disks easier to burn to dvd or use on filesystems that
don't support large files.
|
| twoGbMaxExtentSparse |
A sparse (allocate on demand) disk with 2GB maximum extent size.
Disks in this format can be used with other VMware products. The 2GB
extent size makes these disks easier to burn to dvd or use on
filesystems that don't support large files.
|