Hello, if I understand it correctly, for clusters with a shared system datastore, there is almost no performance difference between shuting down a VM to the POWEROFF state and shutting it down to the UNDEPLOYED state. The only visible difference (for me) is that the POWEROFF VM is still assigned to…

RFE: Disable POWEROFF in favor of UNDEPLOY

Yenya (Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak) January 11, 2017, 4:38pm 5

Just a cross-reference to a related thread:

Apparently many things related to snapshots do not work in UNDEPLOYED state, only in POWEROFF state.

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