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Excellent, so what I did was correct in the steps I took?
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Excellent, so what I did was correct in the steps I took?

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Great, thanks for the confirmation.
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I am relitively new in the VM world. &nbsp;I have created a template with using Windows 2003 Standard with a 25 gig partition. &nbsp;My ESX servers are attached to a SAN. &nbsp; I needed to add 2 additonal drives. &nbsp;When I add the drives this is the step I take.<br />
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Add _Hard Disk<br />
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Create a new virtual disk<br />
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Specify a database store &nbsp;(I choose my LUN here)<br />
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My questions come at this point. &nbsp;Does each disk need its own SCSI Virtual device node. &nbsp;But default it uses SCSI (0:1), but when I created the other 2 I used SCSI (0:2) and (0:3) <br />
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Does this hurt anything? &nbsp;What is the pros and cons of this?<br />
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Any and all help is appreciated.<br />
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Joe<br />

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I am relitively new in the VM world.  I have created a template with using Windows 2003 Standard with a 25 gig partition.  My ESX servers are attached to a SAN.   I needed to add 2 additonal drives.  When I add the drives this is the step I take.

Add _Hard Disk

Create a new virtual disk

Specify a database store  (I choose my LUN here)

My questions come at this point.  Does each disk need its own SCSI Virtual device node.  But default it uses SCSI (0:1), but when I created the other 2 I used SCSI (0:2) and (0:3) 

Does this hurt anything?  What is the pros and cons of this?

Any and all help is appreciated.

Joe


Creating additional disk drives in a Virtual Machine

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.