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Disabling the HotPlug capability in ESX 4.0 virtual mac... - 23.Nov.2011 9:00:07 PM

yehit

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You can can disable the HotPlug capability using vSphere Client or by editing the .vmx file.

Note: You can disable the HotPlug capability for PCI devices such as e1000 or vmxnet2 NICs.

To disable the HotPlug capability using vSphere Client:
1.
Connect vSphere Client to ESX or vCenter Server.

2.
Power off the virtual machine.

3.
Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.

4.
Click the Options tab.

5.
Click General > Configuration Parameters > Add Row.

6.
Insert a new row with the name devices.hotplug and value false.

7.
Power on the virtual machine

To disable the HotPlug capability by editing the .vmx file:
1.
Power off the virtual machine.

2.
Access the ESX service console using an SSH client.

3.
Open the virtual machine configuration file (.vmx) in a text editor. The default location is /vmfs/volumes/<datastore_name>/<vm_name>/<vm_name>.vmx.

4.
Add the line:

devices.hotplug = "false"

Note: This setting does not interfere with HotPlug CPU/memory.

5.
Save the file.

6.
Power on the virtual machine.