VMware

Create Template for Terraform and other provisioning needs.

# Base install of Ubuntu Bionic and then
sudo apt-get install -y open-vm-tools sshd

vmkfstools -i myfile.vmdk -d thin dest/myfile.vmdk

this copies both .vmdk and -flat.vmdk

Performance

• https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2019/12/cpu-hot-add-performance-vsphere67.html