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vm: note on vmware disk controllers (#314)
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: dahn <daan.hoogland@gmail.com>
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functions such as mounting additional volumes and ISO images,
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live migration, and graceful shutdown.
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**VMware**
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If the rootDiskController and dataDiskController are not specified for an instance using instance details and
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these are set to use osdefault in the template or the global configuration, then CloudStack tries to find the
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recommended disk controllers for it using guest OS from the hypervisor. In some specific cases, it may create
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issues with the instance deployment or start operation. To overcome this, a specific disk controller can be
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specified at the instance or template level. For an existing instance its settings can be updated while it is in
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stopped state by admin.
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Install Required Tools and Drivers
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