Boot Disks of VMs Deployed via Aria Automation to VMC on AWS are Thick Provisioned Despite vCenter Storage Policy Set to Thin
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Boot Disks of VMs Deployed via Aria Automation to VMC on AWS are Thick Provisioned Despite vCenter Storage Policy Set to Thin

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Article ID: 411985

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Products

VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

When provisioning virtual machines through VMware  Aria Automation to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) endpoints, the boot disk is consistently deployed using Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed format, even when the vCenter storage policy explicitly specifies Thin Provisioning. 

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1

Resolution

Workaround:


To avoid this issue, configure VMware Aria Automation’s storage profile to explicitly set the provisioning type to Thin. This ensures consistent behavior across all disks, including the boot disk. 

OR

If you do not wish to create storage profile in VMware Aria Automation , consider switching to simple VM templates (not OVF-based, and not from the Content Library) for provisioning. 

Additional Information

This issue would be fixed in 8.18.1 VMware Aria automation patch 4

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