The latest virtual machine hardware version available yields the best performance and most reliable behavior from the applications running in your virtual machine.
Virtual machines with hardware version 10 or later are created with SATA hard disks or CD drives. Upgrading your virtual machine from hardware version 9 or earlier does not change any devices in your virtual machine to SATA. If you want to use SATA disks or drives with your virtual machine, you must manually change the disk and drive types.
Prerequisites
- Evaluate the applications running in your virtual machine to determine which hardware version to select. Some applications might have specific hardware requirements offered through a virtual machine hardware version older than the latest available version.
- Consider taking a snapshot of the virtual machine. If changing the hardware version of your virtual machine results in undesirable behavior, you can revert to the snapshot taken before the hardware version upgrade.
- Shut down or power off your virtual machine before you change its hardware version.
Procedure
Results
The hardware version of the virtual machine is changed.
What to do next
Power on the virtual machine.