When the hardware acceleration functionality is supported, the host can get hardware assistance and perform several tasks faster and more efficiently.
The host can get assistance with the following activities:
- Migrating virtual machines with Storage vMotion
- Deploying virtual machines from templates
- Cloning virtual machines or templates
- VMFS clustered locking and metadata operations for virtual machine files
- Provisioning thick virtual disks
- Creating fault-tolerant virtual machines
- Creating and cloning thick disks on NFS datastores
