
Workstation User’s Manual
242 VMware, Inc.
Add a New Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine
Toincreasestoragespace,youcanaddanewvirtualdisktoavirtualmachine.Virtual
disksarestoredasfilesonthehostcomputeroronanetworkfileserver.AvirtualIDE
driveorSCSIdrivecanbestoredonaphysicalIDEdriveorSCSIdrive.
Asanalternativetoaddinganewvirtualdiskto
yourvirtualmachine,youcanexpand
yourexistingvirtualdisk.See“ExpandaVirtualDisk”onpage 240.
To add a new virtual disk to a virtual machine
1 SelectthevirtualmachineandchooseVM>Settings.
2OntheHardwaretab,clickAddtostarttheAddHardwarewizard.
3OntheHardwareTypepage,selectHa
rdDiskan
dclickNext.
4OntheSelectaDiskpage,selectCreateanewvirtualdiskandclickNext.
5OntheSelectaDiskTypepage,chooseIDEdiskorSCSI.
See“IDEandSCSIDiskTypes”onpage 237.
Workstation7.0virtualmachinescanuseupto4IDEdevicesandupto60SCSI
devices.AnyofthesedevicescanbeavirtualorphysicalharddiskorDVDor
CD‐ROMdrive.
6 (Optional)Toexcludedisksfromsnapshots,intheModesection,select
Independentforthemodeandchooseoneofthefollowingoptions:
Persistent–Disksinpersistentmodebehave likeconventionaldisksona
physicalcomputer.Alldatawrittentoadiskinpersistentmodeiswritten
permanentlytothedisk.
Nonpersistent–Changestodisksinnonpersistentmodearediscardedwhen
youpowerofforresetthevirtualmachine.Nonpersistentmodeenablesyou
torestartthevirtualmachinewithavirtualdiskinthesamestateeverytime.
Changestothediskarewrittentoandreadfromaredologf
ilethatisdele
ted
whenyoupowerofforresetthevirtualmachine.
See“InformationCapturedbySnapshots”onpage 205.
7OntheSpecifyDiskCapacitypage,setthecapacityforthenewvirtualdisk.
Youcansetasizebetween0.1GBand950GBforavirtualdisk.See“DiskSizeand
Files”onpage
236.
N
OTEIfyouhaveaWindowsNT4.0guestwithaSCSIvirtualdisk,youcannotadd
bothanadditionalSCSIdiskandanIDEdisktotheconfiguration.
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