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== Adding a New Virtual Disk ==
A new virtual disk may be added to a virtual machine via the VI Web Access management interface (details of which are covered in the [[A Guided Tour of the VMware Server 2.0 Infrastructure Web Access Interface]] chapter of this book). SCSI based virtual disks may be installed on running virtual machines as long as those machines are running on VMware virtual hardware version 7 or later (the default setting when virtual machines are created in VMware Server 2.0). IDE based virtual disks or virtual machines running on older versions of the virtual hardware require that the virtual machine be powered off prior to addition of a new virtual disk.
Once logged into the VI Web Access interface, the first step in adding a new virtual disk is to select the required virtual machine from the ''Inventory'' panel. In the ''Commands'' section of the virtual machine workspace, click on the ''Add Hardware'' link to invoke the ''Add Hardware Wizard'' as illustrated in the following figure:
[[Image:vmware_server_add_hardware_wizard.jpg|The VMware Server Add Hardware Wizard]]
To add a new virtual disk, select the ''Hard Disk'' option from the list of new hardware devices to proceed to the ''Hard Disk'' page. Options are available to either create an entirely new virtual disk, or to use an existing virtual disk that may already have been created for a pre-existing virtual machine. In fact, this second option can be used to enable multiple virtual machines to share a virtual disk, although careful steps should be taken to avoid disk write conflicts (for example both guests attempting to write simultaneously to the same disk block will likely cause problems for most standard file systems).
Once a decision has been make created or re-using a virtual disk, the next wizard screen provides the option to configure the
