Create New Harddisk

[jasonjones1967]

Hi all,

Just getting into using the toolkit - major interest is in hot plugging disks into virtual machines.

After allocating disk to the esx server (using san disk), I can rescan the hba, to see the available lun - eg vmhba1:0:101 is now available.

I now want to allocate this directly to a virtual machine - in this case "Windows 2003 Ent Orig"

get-vm -name "windows 2003 ent orig":new-harddisk -capacitykb 2097152 -disktype rawphysical -lunid vmhba1:0:101

This errors woth "incompatible device backing"

Any pointers?

Thanks

[LucD]

Don't you have to pass a datastore so the system knows where to create the mapping file for the raw disk ?

[jasonjones1967]

guess you would need to pass a store paramter somewher,

In vmkfstools, I would pass that in the path of creating the mapping vmdk (ie the location was datastore anyway)

will keep looking cheers for the pointer

[LucD]

The new-harddisk cmdlet has a -Datastore parameter.

Did you try using that ?