Attach or Detach a VMware Cloud Director Named Disk to a Virtual Machine

After you create a named disk in a VDC in the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal, you can attach it to any virtual machine that is deployed in the VDC. You can attach a shared named disk to multiple VMs. You can also detach a named disk.

Prerequisites

You must have an organization administrator role or disk owner rights.

Procedure

1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the virtual data center you want to explore and under Storage, from the left panel, select Named Disks.
2. Click the radio button next to the name of the named disk that you want to attach to a virtual machine, and click Attach.
3. From the drop-down menu, select a virtual machine to which to attach the named disk, and click Apply.
4. If you want to attach another VM to a shared disk, repeat Step 2 and Step 3.
5. If you want to detach a named disk, select the radio button next to the name of the disk and click Detach.
   Deleting a VM of an attached disk in vSphere corrupts the disk state in VMware Cloud Director and you cannot detach or delete the disc. To detach such disks, select the Force detach option.