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VMWare ESXi 4: Easiest way to configure existing template with eager-zeroed thick disks?

Asked by bsohn417 in VMware, Virtualization, Hypervisor

What's the easiest way to configure an existing VMWare template with eager-zeroed thick disks on ESXi 4?  When I try to deploy a virtual machine from the existing template, I have the option use thick format, but that's lazy-zeroed thick.  

I was thinking of doing the following:

1) Convert the template to a virtual machine and then turn on fault tolerance (which would convert the virtual disk to eager zeroed),

2) Turn off fault tolerance.  If fault tolerance was turned off, would the virtual disk remain eager-zeroed thick?

Thanks for any help.  
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