These images are available in the host data store. Figure 5: Connect to a floppy disk image. Figure 6 gives you a look at the floppy disk image options. Figure 6: Choose the vmimages folder.
Back on the Windows installation screen, click the Load Driver button and, on the following screen, click Browse and expand the newly connected floppy device. Choose the top level folder for your operating system type — bit i or bit amd AMD64 is a generic name for bit systems. Figure 7: Choose the appropriate driver type for your OS.
Figure 8 gives you a look at the newly discovered storage device. Figure 8: The storage device has now been located. From this point forward, the remainder of the Windows installation goes exactly as it would for any other virtual machine.
You first need to add a new hard drive to the system so that the new controller has something connected to it. We will walk through the process with these steps:. First, open vCenter and right-click on the target virtual machine and, from the shortcut menu, select Edit Settings. Figure 9: Open the virtual machine settings page. Edit the settings again. Click OK to save the configuration. Now, power on the virtual machine. When Windows comes up, it will detect the new hardware and should prompt you to reboot the VM.
Go ahead and do so. Once it comes up, check in the Disk Manager to make sure that the disks are online. Occasionally I have seen the disks go offline because of the change to the underlying controllers. A simple set online operation will fix this if it occurs. Now, as always, benchmark your storage performance before and after the change to ensure that you actually do receive a performance improvement, because every system is different. The test scenarios are only examples, the individual values should be adjusted individually to the own workload to achieve realistic results.
Details of the test system used:. Views View View source History. Personal tools Create account Log in. From Thomas-Krenn-Wiki. Related articles. Dont get confused about the name amd This is the driver that you should use on any 64bit version of Windows, regardless of what processor vendor youre using. AMD64 is a generic name for bit systems 9 Windows will now load the new driver and youll be able to choose the virtual hard drive that you create when you created the virtual machine 10 Complete the Windows install.
You first need to add a new hard drive to the system so that the new controller has something connected to it. When you get to the Add Hardware page, select Hard Disk and click Next 3 Follow the on-screen steps to choose the size for the new virtual hard drive. Do not attach the hard drive to anything starting with a zero as this is generally the default SCSI adapter.
The reason that the new adapter was created is because we chose to attach the new hard drive to something other than the default adapter 5 Now, select the new SCSI controller and click the Change Type button.
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