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Adding a New Disk to a Virtual Machine

Virtual disks are the disk partitions of virtual machines. Each virtual disk is stored as a file on the VMFS (VMware ESX Server file system) partition. Since an entire disk partition is saved as a file, it is easy to back up, move and copy. You can even share virtual hard disks from a file server.

Related topics:

• Adding a new virtual disk
• Adding an existing virtual disk to a virtual machine
• Disk modes you can assign to virtual disks
• Changing the configuration of a virtual disk

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