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During virtual machine creation, a hard disk and a SCSI or SATA controller are added to the virtual
machine by default, based on the guest operating system that you select. If this disk does not meet your
needs, you can remove it and add a new hard disk at the end of the creation process.
If you add multiple hard disks to a virtual machine, you can assign them to several controllers to improve
performance. For controller and bus node behavior, see SCSI and SATA Storage Controller Conditions,
Limitations, and Compatibility.
Prerequisites
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Ensure that you are familiar with configuration options and caveats for adding virtual hard disks. See
Virtual Disk Configuration.
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Before you add disks greater than 2TB to a virtual machine, see Large Capacity Virtual Disk
Conditions and Limitations.
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Verify that you have the Virtual machine.Configuration.Add new disk privilege on the destination
folder or datastore.
Procedure
1 Right-click a virtual machine in the inventory and select Edit Settings.
2 On the Virtual Hardware tab, add a new hard disk to the virtual machine.
Client Steps
vSphere Client Click the Add New Device button and select Hard Disk from the drop-down
menu.
vSphere Web Client a Select New Hard Disk from the New device drop-down menu at the bottom
of the wizard.
b Click Add.
The hard disk appears in the Virtual Hardware devices list.
Note If the host where the virtual machine resides has available PMem resources, you can place the
new hard drive on the host-local PMem datastore.
3 Expand New hard disk and customize the settings of the new hard disk.
a Enter a size for the hard disk and select the unit from the drop-down menu.
b From the VM storage policy, select a storage policy or leave the default one.
c From the Location drop-down menu, select the datastore location where you want to store virtual
machine files.
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