ramrachumdell
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Convert a pvscsi drive to a scsi drive

Complete noob here.

I have a VM on my ESXi server that has a PVSCSI disk. I'd like to convert it to a SCSI disk. Is there a command line that does that?

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Finikiez
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Hi!

You just need to change vSCSI controller type from pvscsi to LSI SAS and nothing more. There is nothing to do with disk itself.

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ramrachum
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Thank you Finikiez! But how do I do the thing you say from the CLI? Sorry, I'm a noob so there are lots of obvious things I don't know.

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Finikiez
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Why do you want to do this from CLI?

It's only clicks from GUI Smiley Happy Changing the virtual SCSI controller of a virtual machine (1002149) | VMware KB

PowerCLI command Set-ScsiController - vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference

Or, it's possible to power down VM and edit VM's vmx manually.

Here is difinition VMware Continuum - SCSI-controller : the parameters

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