How to Add a Virtual Disk to the Existing Storage in Windows Server?

A virtual disk is a file on the host system and appears to be a physical disk drive to the guest operating system. So, if you need some additional space in your virtual machine, and to solve this problem, you can attach a virtual disk to it of the desired size. In this article, we would learn practically how to attach a Virtual Disk.

Steps to attach a Virtual Disk

Step 1: Open the settings of your virtual machine. The VM on which you want to attach the additional Virtual Disk.

Step 2: Go to –> Storage –> Click on controller –> Select add hard disk. Add Hard disk button would e available when you’ll select controller: SATA and then the rightmost icon on it, i.e. of adding a Virtual hard disk.

Step 3: Click on Create. We need to create a virtual disk and attach it. A wizard for creating a virtual disk would appear.

Step 4: Select the type of disk and click Next. Select the type of disk you want to specify.

Step 5: Select the type of allocation on the physical disk and click Next. Select dynamically allocated so that they are faster to create and can grow to larger sizes.

Step 6: Provide the location, name, and size of the disk and click on the Create button.

Step 7: Select the disk created and click on Choose button. 

A Virtual hard disk would be attached to the existing storage.