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Gabriel Graves
Asked: 2018-03-01 19:29:57 +0800 CST

Best Practice Moving a Hard Drive from one VMWare ESX Guest to Another

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When removing a hard disk from a VMWare ESX virtual machine running Windows, is it best practice to shut down the server first or is there a minimal risk (if the drive is not being written to at the time of removal; drive being non-OS drive) by keeping the server online. I have previously kept servers online with no damage when moving a hard disk from one VM to another but that got me thinking about best practices.

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  1. Best Answer
    1. Open Disk Management or Diskpart
    2. Take needed disk offline
    3. Open VM Settings in ESXi
    4. Remove Disk from VM without deletion from datastore
    5. Add existing disk to needed VM.
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