Device Management Workflows

With the device management workflows, you can manage the devices that are connected to a virtual machine or to a host datastore.

To access these workflows, navigate to

Library

Workflows

and enter the

vcenter

virtual_machine_management

and

device_management

tags in the workflow search box.

Workflow Name	Description
Add CD-ROM	Adds a virtual CD-ROM to a virtual machine. If the virtual machine has no IDE controller, the workflow creates one.
Add disk	Adds a virtual disk to a virtual machine.
Change RAM	Changes the amount of RAM of a virtual machine.
Convert disks to thin provisioning	Converts thick-provisioned disks of virtual machines to thin-provisioned disks.
Convert independent disks	Converts all independent virtual machine disks to normal disks by removing the independent flag from the disks.
Disconnect all detachable devices from a running virtual machine	Disconnects floppy disks, CD-ROM drives, parallel ports, and serial ports from a running virtual machine.
Mount CD-ROM	Mounts the CD-ROM of a virtual machine. If the virtual machine has no IDE controller and/or CD-ROM drive, the workflow creates them.
Mount floppy disk drive	Mounts a floppy disk drive FLP file from the ESX datastore.