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Adding a Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine

You add a virtual disk through the VMware Management Interface. Be sure that the virtual machine’s disk file name is unique. This filename should end in .dsk.

1. From the VMware Management Interface overview page (http://<hostname>/overview), click the link for the virtual machine you want to modify.
2. Be sure the virtual machine is powered off.
3. On the details page for that virtual machine, click Edit VM Configuration.
4. Click New Disk... and enter a unique name for the new disk file. Alternately, you may select a file name already in use.

   Note: If you use an existing file name, VMware ESX Server warns you that a virtual machine with that name already exists. However, multiple virtual machines can use the same virtual disk if the disk mode is nonpersistent.

5. Select the disk mode for your virtual disk. VMware ESX Server can use disks in four different modes: persistent, nonpersistent, undoable and append.
6. Click Save Changes.

Related topics:

• Disk modes you can assign to virtual disks

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