You are creating a virtual disk for a VMware VM. The VM will reside on a datastore provisioned from an XtremIO volume. You want to ensure proper performance and capacity usage. How should the disk be presented to the guest?
A) Thick provisioned, eager zero
B) Thin provisioned, lazy zero
C) Thick provisioned, lazy zero
D) Thin provisioned, eager zero

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Thick provisioned, eager zero disks are fully allocated and zeroed out at creation time, ensuring better performance and efficient capacity usage on XtremIO, which benefits from predictable I/O patterns.

You Are Creating a Virtual Disk for a VMware VM