You can add a virtual hard disk to an IDE device or a SCSI adapter with the following procedure. By default, any hardware profile includes a built-in IDE drive. You can add and configure up to four virtual SCSI adapters to a virtual machine.
Use this procedure when modifying a hardware profile or configuring hardware profile settings from the New Template Wizard or the New Virtual Machine Wizard.
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In VMM 2008 R2, if a virtual machine is deployed on a host that is using the Hyper-V implementation of the SCSI controller, you can add or remove a virtual hard disk or pass-through disk from the SCSI controller while the virtual machine is running. On all other storage configurations, you must stop the virtual machine before adding or removing a disk. |
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To add a virtual hard disk, take one of the following actions:
- To add a virtual hard disk to an IDE bus, in
the left pane, under Bus Configuration, click IDE
Devices, and then click VHD on the top toolbar.
- To add a virtual hard disk to a SCSI bus,
click SCSI Adapter on the top toolbar and then click
VHD on the toolbar.
- To add a virtual hard disk to an IDE bus, in
the left pane, under Bus Configuration, click IDE
Devices, and then click VHD on the top toolbar.
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Under Channel, select a channel to attach to this virtual hard disk.
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Under Virtual Hard Disk, select one of the following options:
- Use an existing virtual hard disk.
Select this option if you want to add an existing virtual hard disk
to the virtual machine. Click Browse to display the
Select a virtual hard disk dialog box, and then select the
virtual hard disk that you want to use from the list that displays
on this screen.
- Create a new virtual hard disk
(available on the hardware profile for a virtual machine). Select
this option if you want to create a new virtual hard disk. Modify
the values for the following options:
- Type. Select Dynamic (default)
or Fixed.
- Size. Specify, in gigabytes (GB), the
size of a fixed virtual hard disk or the maximum size of a
dynamically expanding virtual hard disk.
- Destination file name. Specify the
name of a new virtual hard disk.
- Type. Select Dynamic (default)
or Fixed.
- Use an existing virtual hard disk.
Select this option if you want to add an existing virtual hard disk
to the virtual machine. Click Browse to display the
Select a virtual hard disk dialog box, and then select the
virtual hard disk that you want to use from the list that displays
on this screen.
See Also
For the most up-to-date Help information, go to the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Help Online. To find additional Virtual Machine Manager 2008 documentation, go to the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 TechCenter Library.