Specifications

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Click Advanced if you want to specify the virtual machine SCSI or IDE device
node to which this disk is connected.
On the advanced settings screen, you can also specify a disk mode. This is useful
in certain special-purpose configurations in which you want to exclude disks
from the snapshot. For more information on the snapshot feature, see Taking
Snapshots on page 153. You can choose between a normal disk and an
independent disk.
Normal disks are included in snapshots. This is the default setting for a new disk.
Independent disks are not included in snapshots. If you select Independent, you
must further select one of the following modes:
• Persistent — changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk.
• Nonpersistent — changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or
revert to the snapshot.
When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made
any selections you want to make on the advanced settings screen, click Finish.
6. The wizard configures the new physical disk. If the partitions used on the
physical disk are not formatted for your guest operating system, use the guest
operating system’s tools to format them.
Note: After you create a physical disk using one or more partitions on a physical disk,
you should never modify the partition tables by running fdisk or a similar utility in
the guest operating system.
Note: If you use fdisk or a similar utility on the host operating system to modify
the partition table of the physical disk, you must recreate the virtual machine’s
physical disk.