{"id":3359,"date":"2013-06-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/21\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-disks-to-a-live-virtual-machine\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-add-disks-to-a-live-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-disks-to-a-live-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Add Disks to a Live Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to add disks to a live virtual machine on Hyper-V.<\/span>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I easily add disk drives to my virtual machine while it is live?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the <strong>Add-VMScsiControlle<\/strong>r and <strong>Add-VMHardDiskDrive<\/strong> cmdlets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">First, stop the virtual machine, add the SCSI controller, then start the virtual machine:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">STOP-VM &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">ADD-VMScsiController -VMname &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">START-VM &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Now attach disks live<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">NEW-VHD -Dynamic C:VHDMyDrive.vhdx -SizeBytes 60GB<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">ADD-VMHardDiskDrive -vmname &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; -path C:VHDMyDrive.VHDX -ControllerType SCSI\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add disks to a live virtual machine on Hyper-V. &nbsp;How can I easily add disk drives to my virtual machine while it is live? &nbsp;Use the Add-VMScsiController and Add-VMHardDiskDrive cmdlets. First, stop the virtual machine, add the SCSI controller, then start the virtual machine: STOP-VM &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; ADD-VMScsiController -VMname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,3,154,45],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add disks to a live virtual machine on Hyper-V. &nbsp;How can I easily add disk drives to my virtual machine while it is live? &nbsp;Use the Add-VMScsiController and Add-VMHardDiskDrive cmdlets. First, stop the virtual machine, add the SCSI controller, then start the virtual machine: STOP-VM &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; ADD-VMScsiController -VMname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}