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You cannot hot-extend virtual SATA disks, or any virtual disk if the capacity after extension is equal to
or greater than 2TB.
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Fault Tolerance is not supported.
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Virtual SAN is not supported.
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BusLogic Parallel controllers are not supported.
Change the Virtual Disk Configuration
If you run out of disk space, you can increase the size of the disk. You can change the virtual device node
and the persistence mode for virtual disk configuration for a virtual machine.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have the following privileges:
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Virtual machine.Configuration.Modify device settings on the virtual machine.
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Virtual machine.Configuration.Extend virtual disk on the virtual machine.
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Datastore.Allocate space on the datastore.
Procedure
1 Right-click a virtual machine in the inventory and select Edit Settings.
2 On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Hard disk to view the disk options.
3 (Optional) To change the size of the disk, type a new value in the Provisioned Size text box and select
the units from the drop-down menu.
4 (Optional) To change the way that disks are affected by snapshots, select a disk mode option.
Option Description
Dependent
Dependent disks are included in snapshots.
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 turn 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 turn off or reset the virtual machine.
5 Click OK.
Add a Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine
When you create a virtual machine, a default virtual hard disk is added. You can add another hard disk if
you run out of disk space, if you want to add a boot disk, or for other file management purposes. When you
add a hard disk to a virtual machine, you can create a virtual disk, add an existing virtual disk, or add a
mapped SAN LUN.
You can add a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine before or after you add a SCSI or SATA storage
controller. The new disk is assigned to the first available virtual device node on the default controller, for
example (0:1). Only device nodes for the default controller are available unless you add additional
controllers.
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