Add additional hard disk VM, In this article, I will add a virtual hard disk to an existing virtual machine, or you can add a hard disk when you customize the VM hardware during the virtual machine creation process. When we add the hard disk to a virtual machine, you can create a new virtual disk, add an existing virtual disk, or add a mapped SAN LUN.
Add additional hard disk VM (Virtual Machine).
1- Login to your VMware vSphere Client, In the vSphere Client inventory, right-click the virtual machine the one you want to add an additional hard disk and then select Edit Settings.
2- Click the Virtual Hardware, click Add New Device, and then click Hard Disk under Disks, Drives, and Storage.
3- After selecting hard disk, Now you can see new hard disk has been added.
4- Select a location to store the disk.
Save with the virtual machine or specify a datastore. If you selected to identify a datastore, browse for the datastore location.
5- Select a datastore where you want to store and then click OK.
6- Thick Provision creates a virtual disk in a default thick format.
The Thick Provision Eager Zeroed creates a type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such as Fault Tolerance.
Thin Provision creates a disk in a thin format. Select this format to save storage space.
Disk provision selects Thin Provision.
7- Click ok.
8- Log in to your virtual machine, open Server Manager, select Tools, and click Computer Management.
9- Under Computer Management select Disk Management.
10- Right click Disk 1 and click Online.
11- Now Right-click Disk 1 and select Initialize Disk.
12- Click OK.
13- Right click Unallocated volume and click New Simple Volume.
14- Welcome to new simple volume wizard, then click Next.
15- Select volume size and click next.
16- Assign a drive letter and click next.
17- Format Partition, Click next.
18- New volume successfully created, click finish.
19- Open my computer and you can see a new volume.
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