I was asked to use the provisioning and cloning process to create VM's, as opposed to just cloning the our templates. My storage team has indicated that under the covers this is a much more efficient way to deploy machines (new vm will be created deduped amongst other efficiencies). Is it possible to turn off these additional VCenter attributes?
What are the concerns when removing the attributes?
I am having a hard time finding any info around why these are created, what there for, why we need or don't need them? We have just migrated from our old filer to netapp and the efficiencies of the RCU functionality are awesome but what is all this stuff in my vcenter?
Appreciate any additional info that can be provided.
Ryan