Select the host profile and click on Edit host profile.
Expand ;Advanced Configuration Settings and navigate to System Image Cache Configuration as shown here.
Click on Enable stateful install on the host or Enable stateful install to a USB disk on the host:
Provide inputs for Arguments for first disk or leave at default: this is the order of preference of disk on which the host would be used for installation. The administrator may also indicate the specific disk make, model or driver used, the specific disk matching the preference is chosen for installation.
For the option Check to overwrite any VMFS volumes on the selected disk, leave it unchecked. This would ensure that if there were any VMs on local VMFS volume, they are retained.
For the option Check to ignore any SSD devices connected to the host, leave it unchecked; you may need to enable this setting only if you have SSD for specific use cases for the local SSD such as using vFRC.
