I can't add a new virtual hard drive to my virtual machine. What should I do?

[Das2017]

I can't add a new virtual hard drive to my virtual machine. What should I do?

[NitinBaliyan · Accepted solution]

This could be with the following reasons

1)   You may not have appropriate permissions to add new hardware to the virtual machine and

  2)  

VM might be in powered on state.

[pradeepdocument]

Hi Dear,

Please check for the sufficient space on datastore from which you need to provide space.