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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

dsmsk80
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  • You can probably do this with a symbolic link on the filesystem... but my guess is that vmware discourages this type of thing. – Daniel Widrick Sep 24 '13 at 16:12

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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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dsmsk80
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  • VmWare view seems not so "Enterprisey" as they seem to be for Desktops mostly, but this is a potential fit for the requirements, thanks. –  Sep 26 '13 at 14:33