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Myersc
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new-advancedsetting question

   I am attempting to hard code the scsi0:0 disk to persistent mode.  I can manually enter Name scsi0:0.mode and Value persistent into the Advanced Config setting  and things work great.  If I attempt to use the new-advancedsetting -entity $vmguest -Name scsi0:0.mode -Value persistent the value never shows up in the GUI and upon subsequent runs keeps asking if I want to create.  Can anyone confirm this or point me in the right direction??

Craig

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MKguy
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First of all, why don't you set this setting through the Set-HardDisk cmdlet? See: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI51/html/Set-HardDisk.html

Did you check whether the value is actually present in the VMX file afterwards? Try a ReloadVM task to refresh the settings displayed on the GUI:

($vm | Get-View).Reload()

You probably can only set this on a powered-off VM too.

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Myersc
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By setting the scsi0:0.mode it overrides what the Set-HardDisk setting does.  Effectively you can hard code the scsci0:0.mode to persistent and use the Set-HardDisk to set it to Independant non-persistant and the drive will still commit all changes immediately. 

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