# Enum - VAppCloneSpecProvisioningType(vim.vApp.CloneSpec.ProvisioningType)

Since
  vSphere API 4.1

## Enum Description

The cloned VMs can either be provisioned the same way as the VMs they are a clone of, thin provisioned or thick provisioned, or linked clones (i.e., using delta disks).

Enum Constants

Name | Description
--- | ---
sameAsSource | Each disk in the cloned virtual machines will have the same type of disk as the source vApp.
thick | Each disk in the cloned virtual machines are allocated and committed in full size immediately.
thin | Each disk in the cloned virtual machines is allocated in full size now and committed on demand. This is only supported on VMFS-3 and newer datastores. Other types of datastores may create thick disks.

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