CD drive for a VM

[sumann7]

Hello Team,

I have a small query if any one can assist me.

IHAC who reports that when he create a VM with typical setting the CD drives take SATA contoller

Below are the configuration details:

Hardware Version : 11

vCenter version 6.0 U3

ESXi version 6.0 U3

I tried the same in the lab environment and for me it takes IDE.

So my question is :  I want to understand how it decide if it should be SATA or IDE for a VM created with typical settings.

Any suggestion please...

Regards,

Suman Rout

[daphnissov]

By default, if you create a Windows VM it will use a SATA controller type. If you create a Linux VM, it will default to an IDE controller type. When it comes to Virtual CD-ROM devices, it really doesn't make much difference because, at least in most cases, you will probably not be reading or writing from that device for very long.

[TomHowarth]

Operating system choice. Linux = IDE, modern Windows OS = SATA, Legacy Windows OS = IDE