Scenario: The company is designing a cost-efficient environment for the call center workers. The IT department is replacing the existing thin clients with newer models. Only block storage is…

Machine Creation Services (MCS) provisions VMs by creating a full disk copy for each virtual machine, which would not keep the impact to storage as low as possible.

Provisioning Services (PVS) centralizes the operating system image into a vDisk, which is then streamed over the network to multiple target devices. This method dramatically reduces local storage requirements on the hypervisor's block storage by eliminating the need for each virtual machine to have its own full operating system disk, making it ideal for shared server environments with a focus on storage efficiency.

Manually installing the operating system on each server is highly inefficient and does not leverage virtualization benefits for centralized image management or storage savings.

Using cloned VM templates creates a full copy of the OS disk for each VM, which consumes significant storage and is less efficient than image streaming.