ESX 3.5 Cluster 2 nodes - All VM's are Windows 2003 Server
I don't remember the update number.
Disk subsystem for DataStores are 4Gb Fibre
2 DataStores:
datastore1 = SAS drives
datastore2 = MDL (SATA)
VM name to add new drive: GOOFY
I have this one VM GOOFY that needs a new 100GB drive attached to it. The VM GOOFY resides in datastore1. The new disk needs to be created in the datastore2 beacuase it's static data. No changes to the files, basically just read data of documents so high I/O performance is not necessary.
How do I do that?
Temporarily I created a VM called GOOFY_D with that drive size and attached GOOFY to the new 100GB.vmdk and assigned the new drive as the "D:" drive and removed the VM from Inventory. It works but I want to do it correctly.
Yeah, that was the "Mickey Mouse" way of doing it but hey, it works!..........for now.
Thanks
I don't have access to a test environment at the moment. However. if it only asks for the datastore, it should create a folder with the VM's name on this datatstore automatically.
André
The usual way to do this is to create a folder on the datastore where you want to have the new vmdk. Then open the VM's settings and add a new HDD. The wizard will ask you whether you want to store the new HDD with the VM or at another location. At this point select the new folder on the other datastore.
André
The wizard does ask which datastore but never asks which folder to put it in.
I don't have access to a test environment at the moment. However. if it only asks for the datastore, it should create a folder with the VM's name on this datatstore automatically.
André
I take that back. Your correct, it did create a folder but called it goofydisk.
That should work for me.
Thanks Dre!