Allocating storage resources to a VM as needed while giving the appearance of providing more is known as...

Allocating storage resources to a VM as needed while giving the appearance of providing more is known as...

• Thin provisioning
• Dynamic assigning
• Narrow distribution
• Light packing 

EXPLANATION

An organization virtual datacenter requires storage space for vApps and vApp templates. You can allocate storage from the space available on provider virtual datacenter datastores.

Thin provisioning can help avoid over-allocating storage and save storage space. For a virtual machine with a thin virtual disk, ESXi provisions the entire space required for the disk's current and future activities. ESXi commits only as much storage space as the disk needs for its initial operations.

Fast provisioning saves time by using vSphere linked clones for certain operations. See Fast Provisioning of Virtual Machines.