Whether Hyper-V 2012 will support Thin provisioning ?

Hi All,
I am installing windows server 2012 in Hyper V as a VM using iso images.... While creating new virtual machine in Hyper-V I am not able to see any options like "Thin Provisioning"... In Hyper V how thin provisioning will
work and how to enable it?
I install one Server 2012 in Hyper V--> It display harddisk type as "xxxx.vhdx"
Note:In Vmware the thin provisioning option is available while creating virtual machines.
Thanks,
Rajarajan.D

Hello,
I hope you have a great day.
Creating the VHDX file as dynamically expanding, is the VMware equivalent to thin provisioning.
Example: Create dynamically vhdx with size of 100 GB and install Server 2012 OS. The Guest OS will see drive capacity as 100GB however the actual vhdx file would only consume about 15 - 30GB physical hard disk space depending on the features/roles you
install in the OS.
Creating a 100GB Fixed VHDX would consume 100GB of physical hard disk space.

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