{"id":9368,"date":"2009-01-26T15:44:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2009-01-26T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"vmm-2008-adding-a-scsi-disk-to-a-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9368","title":{"rendered":"VMM 2008: Adding a SCSI Disk To A VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously <a title=\"talked \" href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!949.entry\">talked <\/a>about SCSI virtual disks in Hyper-V.\u00a0 Yes, you can have them but you can&#8217;t boot from them.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s worth while using them for other volumes to improve performance and resource utilisation, e.g. place database log files and data files on SCSI disks.<\/p>\n<p>How to add a virtual SCSI disk to a VM in VMM 2008 isn&#8217;t immediately obvious.\u00a0 Power down the VM.\u00a0 Open the hardware configuration.\u00a0 Now add a SCSI controller.\u00a0 You now can add a disk.\u00a0 At first it looks like you&#8217;ve just added another IDE disk.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t appear under the SCSI controller.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a bit confusing.\u00a0 However, you can alter the properties of the disk so that the Channel is set to one of the available 64 SCSI ID&#8217;s.\u00a0 Now your data disk (not your OS disk because that won&#8217;t boot from SCSI) is set up as a SCSI disk and it will perform better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously talked about SCSI virtual disks in Hyper-V.\u00a0 Yes, you can have them but you can&#8217;t boot from them.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s worth while using them for other volumes to improve performance and resource utilisation, e.g. place database log files and data files on SCSI disks. 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