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Chapter 6 Working with Virtual Machines
3MovethepointerovertheconfigurationnameandchooseDetailsfromthemenu.
4MovethepointeroverthevirtualmachinenameandchoosePropertiesfromthe
menu.
5ClickAddHardDisk.
6Enterthediskinformation:
aSpecifywhetherthebustypeisBusLogicSCSIorLSILogicSCSI.
bReviewthesedetailsonthebus
number,busID,anddisksize:
 Ifbusnumbersarenotavailable,NoneappearsintheBusNumberlist.
 BusID#7isreservedforaSCSIadapter.
 Ifabusiscompletelyused,theBusIDlistappearsasanemptylist.
 Disksizeislimitedbythespaceavailablefordatastores.
7ClickOK.
Thenewharddiskappearsinthepropertiesinformationsection.
Adding SCSI Virtual Hard Disks
IfyouaddaSCSIharddisktoavirtualmachine,youmightgenerateanoperating
systemerrormessageaboutmissingdriversforthisdevice.
Ifthiserroroccurs,download
andinstalltheappropriatedriver,andcontactVMware
forfurthersupport.
Editing Hard Disks
YoucanupdatethebusnumberandbusIDofaharddisk.See“EditingBasicVirtual
MachineProperties”onpage 156.
Reviewthisinformation:
 Ifbusnumbersarenotavailable,NoneappearsintheBusNumberlist.
 BusID#7isreservedforaSCSIadapter.
 Ifabusiscompletelyused,theBusIDlistappearsasanemptylist.
TomakethesechangesinsteadinVirtualCenter,seeVMware Infrastructure3
documentation.