Vsphere：hardDisk type need to be configurable.

[guanglinlv]

Hi,

there are two potential configure for hardDisk type in createVirtualMachineand and deployVirtualMachine. actually we need specify hardDisk type(thin or eager_zeroed) manually.

Thanks.

[chrislovecnm]

@guanglinlv can you add more details? Would you like to have a configuration option for hd type?

[chrislovecnm]

@guanglinlv added notes on #3624 about this ...

[chrislovecnm]

@catsby can we add enhancement label instead of bug?

[matt-deboer]

+1: just created a quick test impl of this by adding a "init_type" param to hd, and specified "thin" provisioning--> my total provision time on a cluster of 10 went from 25 mins to 2.5 minutes! (and "storage usage" went way down, as expected); it seems strange that "thin" provisioning wasn't chosen as the default, but anyway, I should have a PR soon where we can review this.

[chrislovecnm]

@matt-deboer go matt ... go matt 👍

[chrislovecnm]

@catsby please close the PR is in

[catsby]

Thanks for following up

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