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Next, create the VMDKs on the cluster-enabled data stores that we created earlier. Create thin-provisioned VMDKs, assign them to a para-virtualized SCSI controller, and set up multi-writer support to allow multiple writers to write under the control of the cluster services.
To create VMDK and assigning them to VMDK, follow these steps:
Figure 47. VMDKs on clustered data store