Change VM Disk Mode whilst VM powered on.

[CraigHa]

Hi All,

Environment is ESXi 4.1 (latest updates/patches) and Virtual Machine is Hardware Version 7. Is there anyway I can change one of my Virtual Machine disks (VMDK) from non-independent to independent/persistant without having to shutdown the VM?

Regards,

Craig

[Basheer09]

Hi Criag,

This setting is not in the hot-add feature for VM hardware 7. So in other words. You will not be able change the hard-drive format without shutting down the VM.

Regards,

Bash

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[idle-jam]

it is not possible. you will need a down time for this activitity

[depping]

I did this in the past by using vmware-cmd. Highly unsupported of course but it did work:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/11/03/vcb-and-independent-disks/

Duncan (VCDX)

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[markusk1985]

Hi,

How does it work with ESXi 5.x?

The answer in PowerCLI

http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/11/04/change-disk-persistence-mode-on-the-fly-in-vsphere-using-p...