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5 (Optional) To change the way that disks are aected by snapshots, select a disk mode from the Disk
Mode drop-down menu.
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 wrien to a disk in persistent mode are wrien
permanently to the disk.
Independent-Nonpersistent
Changes to disks in nonpersistent mode are discarded when you turn o
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 wrien to and read from a redo log le that is deleted when
you turn o or reset the virtual machine.
6 Click Save.
Add a New Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine in the VMware Host Client
You can add a virtual hard disk to an existing virtual machine, or you can add a hard disk when you
customize the virtual machine hardware during the virtual machine creation process. For example, you
might need to provide additional disk space for an existing virtual machine with a heavy work load. During
virtual machine creation, you might want to add a hard disk that is precongured as a boot disk.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are familiar with conguration options and caveats for adding virtual hard disks. See
“Virtual Disk Conguration,” on page 58.
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Before you add disks larger than 2TB in size to a virtual machine, see vSphere Virtual Machine
Administration.
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Verify that you have the Virtual machine..Add new disk privilege on the destination
folder or datastore.
Power o the virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Right-click a virtual machine in the list and select Edit  from the pop-up menu.
3 (Optional) To delete an existing hard disk, move your pointer over the disk and click the Remove icon
(X).
The disk is removed from the virtual machine. If other virtual machines share the disk, the disk les are
not deleted.
4 On the Virtual Hardware tab, select Add hard disk and select New hard disk from the drop-down
menu.
The hard disk appears in the Virtual Hardware devices list.
5 Expand New Hard disk.
6 (Optional) Enter a value for the hard disk size and select the units from the drop-down menu.
7 Select the datastore location where you want to store the virtual machine les.
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