ESXi: Can linked clones be on a different datastore than the parent?
Solution 1:
VMware View 4.5 and higher supports so-called tiered storage. It means that you can define different datastores used for storing replicas, link clones, persistent disks or disposable-file disks. The advantage of such setup is speed as each datastore can have different performance characteristics (SSD vs SAS vs SATA).
When a linked-clone desktop pool is configured, you need to choose one or more datastores on which to store it. Additionally, there are two options which allows you to use tiered storage.
