Adding a second virtual hard disk to the virtual machine

Last Updated : Nov 23, 2018 |
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The following is a generic procedure for adding a second virtual hard disk to a virtual machine. For detailed information, see the VMware documentation.
  1. Using a web browser, enter the FQDN or IP address of the VMware host machine using HTTPS.
  2. On the VMware Getting Started page, click Launch vSphere Client (HTML5).
  3. Log in to the vCenter or vSphere management client by using the administrator credentials.
  4. On the virtual machine inventory page, select the Avaya Breeze® platform cluster node that you want to use to host the new virtual hard disk to store the multimedia attachment files.
  5. Click Configure, and then click VM Hardware to view the current list of hardware that is configured on the virtual machine.
  6. Click ACTIONS, and then click Edit Settings.
  7. In the Edit Settings dialog box, on the Virtual Hardware tab, click ADD NEW DEVICE, and click Hard Disk.
  8. In the Edit Settings dialog box, on the Virtual Hardware tab, click New Hard disk, to expand and configure the attributes of the new virtual hard disk.
  9. Set the virtual hard disk attributes. Do the following:
    1. In the Maximum Size field, specify the size for the virtual hard disk.
    2. In the VM storage policy field, select the storage policy. The default is Datastore Default.
    3. In the Location field, browse and select the datastore location for the virtual hard disk, and click OK. In this example, Win2012 SAN datastore is selected.
    4. In the Disk Provisioning field, select Thin Provision as the format of the disk. For better performance, select Thick Provision Eager Zeroed.
    5. In the Sharing field, select No Sharing.
    6. In the Shares field, select Normal.
    7. In the Limit – IOPs field, select unlimited as the upper limit of I/O operations per second allocated to the virtual hard disk.
    8. In the Virtual flash read cache field, select the size of the virtual hard disk that you want to use for cache. The default is 0 MB.
    9. In the Disk Mode field, select Dependent.
    10. In the Virtual Device Node field, select SCSI Controller 0 and SCSI(0:1) New Hard disk.