Newbie Question: 'Adding a Hard Disk' to exsiting VMGuest

[Mac506]

Hello,

Newbie question here.

Question is regarding to adding new volumes 'Disk' to an existing Windows 2003 Server VMGuest

I have the notes on 'To add a hard drive'

Notes:

Running ESX 3.0.1

On the VMHost (there are about 10 Datastores of varing Free space from (4MB - 25GB free)

The VMGuest that I am looking to add space to is located on a Datastore that has 6GB free.

If I was looking ot add 4GB partitoin to this Virtual Guest Box, what are the steps tp properly create that 4GB of space?

I have seen that I should be able to do this live.

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1. Open VMGuest settings

2. Edit Settings

3. Add..

4. Hard Disk <Next>

Now here is where my questions start.

There are to options that I can chose from (one grayed out)

Create a new Virtural Disk // Use an Existing Virtual Disk?

What is the correct way to add that 4GB partition to this VMGuest from one of the existing datastores?

What considerations should I have if selecting a different datastore if that is an option?

Any help on this proceedure would be great.

Thank you

Adam

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the Forums - Wince you want to create a brand new disk you will want to select Create New Virtual Disk - this will create a new virtual disk file for the VM you will then go into disk manager and partition the new space in the VM.

Basically selecting a different datastore will be used if you want a diak larger than 4 GB -

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