Change the SCSI Controller Type in the vSphere Web Client

You configure virtual SCSI controllers on your virtual machines to attach virtual disks and RDMs to.

The choice of SCSI controller does not affect whether your virtual disk is an IDE or SCSI disk. The IDE adapter is always ATAPI. The default for your guest operating system is already selected. Older guest operating systems default to the BusLogic adapter.

If you create an LSI Logic virtual machine and add a virtual disk that uses BusLogic adapters, the virtual machine boots from the BusLogic adapters disk. LSI Logic SAS is available only for virtual machines with hardware version 7 or later. Disks with snapshots might not experience performance gains when used on LSI Logic SAS, VMware Paravirtual, and LSI Logic Parallel adapters.

Caution

Changing the SCSI controller type might result in a virtual machine boot failure.

Procedure

Select a virtual machine.

■	In the virtual machines and templates inventory tree, select a group of virtual machines and select a virtual machine from the list on the right.
■	Search for a virtual machine and select it from the search results list.

In the VM Hardware panel, click Edit Settings.

Click Virtual Hardware.

Click the triangle next to the SCSI controller to expand the SCSI controller options.

Select a SCSI controller type from the Change Type drop-down menu.

The vSphere Web Client displays information about what will happen if you change the controller type. If you have selected a controller type that is not recommended for the virtual machine's guest operating system, a warning is displayed.

Select whether to change the controller type.

■	Click Change Type to change the controller type.
■	Click Don't change to cancel the change and keep the original controller type.

Click OK.