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vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client

5 (Optional) To change the way disks are affected by snapshots, click Independent and select an option.

Option Description

Independent - Persistent

Disks in persistent mode behave like conventional disks on your physical

computer. All data written to a disk in persistent mode are written

permanently to the disk.

Independent - Nonpersistent

Changes to disks in nonpersistent mode are discarded when you power off

or reset the virtual machine. With nonpersistent mode, you can restart the

virtual machine with a virtual disk in the same state every time. Changes

to the disk are written to and read from a redo log file that is deleted when

you power off or reset.

6 Click Next.

Your changes are recorded and the Ready to Complete page opens.

What to do next

View the selections for your virtual machine on the Ready to Complete page.

Use an Existing Virtual Disk in the vSphere Client

You can use an existing disk that is configured with an operating system or other virtual machine data. This

choice allows you to freely move the virtual hard drive from virtual machine to virtual machine.

Procedure

1 On the Select Existing Disk page of the New Virtual Machine wizard, browse for a virtual disk file, click

OK, and click Next.

2 Accept the default or select a different virtual device node.

In most cases, you can accept the default device node. For a hard disk, a nondefault device node is

useful to control the boot order or to have different SCSI controller types. For example, you might want

to boot from an LSI Logic controller and share a data disk with another virtual machine using a

BusLogic controller with bus sharing turned on.

3 (Optional) To change the way disks are affected by snapshots, click Independent and select an option.