Specifications

Administration Guide
132 VMware, Inc.
To add SCSI disks with IDs between 8 and 15
1On!the!Options!tab!for!the!virtual!machine,!click!the!link!under!Verbose!Options.!
2Click!Add.!
3 Create!an!option!called!scsi0:8.present!and!set!its!value!to!true.
4Click!Add.!
5 Create!an!option!called!scsi0:8.name!and!set!its!value!to!
<vmfsname>:<diskfilename>.vmdk.
In!these!entries,!scsi0 refers!to!the!first!SCSI!
controller!and!8!is!the!device!ID.!
6Click!OK!to!save!your!changes!and!close!the!configuration!file.
By!default,!the!virtual!disk!is!created!in!persistent!mode.!To!change!the!disk!mode,!click!
the!Hardware!tab.!Edit!the!disk!as!described!in!“Configuring!a!Virtual!Machine’s!
Virtual!Disks”!on!page 109.
Using a Physical (Raw) Disk in a Virtual Machine
In!some!configurations,!you!might!give!a!virtual!machine!direct!access!to!a!physical!
disk!partition!stored!on!a!LUN,!rather!than!using!a!virtual!disk!stored!as!a!file!on!a!
VMFS.!This!can!be!useful,!for!example,!if!the!virtual!machine!needs!shared!access!to!
data!stored!on!a
!physical!disk.
For!the!virtual!machine!to!access!a!physical!disk,!add!a!new!virtual!disk!as!described!in!
“A d d i n g !a!Virtual!Disk!to!a!Virtual!Machine”!on!page 112!and!click!System!LUN/Disk.!