# Enum - BaseConfigInfoDiskFileBackingInfoProvisioningType(vim.vslm.BaseConfigInfo.DiskFileBackingInfo.ProvisioningType)

Since
  vSphere API 6.5

## Enum Description

Provisioning type constants.

Enum Constants

Name | Description
--- | ---
eagerZeroedThick | An eager zeroed thick virtual disk has all space allocated and wiped clean of any previous contents on the physical media at creation time. Such virtual disk may take longer time during creation compared to other provisioning formats.
lazyZeroedThick | A thick virtual disk has all space allocated at creation time. This space may contain stale data on the physical media.
thin | Space required for thin-provisioned virtual disk is allocated and zeroed on demand as the space is used.

Show WSDL type definition
<simpleType xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="BaseConfigInfoDiskFileBackingInfoProvisioningType"> <restriction base="xsd:string"> <enumeration value="thin"/> <enumeration value="eagerZeroedThick"/> <enumeration value="lazyZeroedThick"/> </restriction> </simpleType>