You can attach a persistent disk to a Windows instant clone virtual machine. Attaching a persistent disk makes the user settings and information in the disk available to the user of the other virtual machine.
Prerequisites
- Before you attach a persistent disk to another VM, make sure you have a pool with persistent disk created and users are assigned to the VMs of this pool.
- You cannot attach a persistent disk that is stored on a non-vSAN datastore to a virtual machine that is stored on a vSAN datastore. Similarly, you cannot attach a disk that is stored on vSAN to a virtual machine that is stored on non-vSAN. Horizon Console prevents you from selecting virtual machines that span vSAN and non-vSAN datastores.
- Persistent disks are not available for Linux based virtual machines as this feature uses Windows specific APIs.
- Persistent disks must be reconnected to the operating system that was used when they were created. For example, you cannot detach a persistent disk from a Windows 7 instant clone and recreate or attach the persistent disk to a Windows 8 instant clone.
Procedure
What to do next
Verify that the user of the instant clone has sufficient privileges to use the attached disk. For example, if the original user had certain access permissions on the persistent disk, and the persistent disk is attached as drive D on the new linked clone, the new user of the instant clone must have the original user's access permissions on drive D.
Log in to the instant clone's guest operating system as an administrator and assign appropriate privileges to the new user.