If I have a Local datastore that is full, and a second NFS based datastore, can I create a linked clone of a VM on the local datastore, but have the data for the clone live on the NFS datastore? ESXi free license version 5
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VMware View 4.5 and higher supports so-called tiered storage. It means that you can define different datastores used for storing replicas, link clones, persistent disks or disposable-file disks. The advantage of such setup is speed as each datastore can have different performance characteristics (SSD vs SAS vs SATA).
When a linked-clone desktop pool is configured, you need to choose one or more datastores on which to store it. Additionally, there are two options which allows you to use tiered storage.
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