When you add a hard disk to a virtual machine, you can create a new virtual disk, add an existing virtual disk, or add a mapped SAN LUN.
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| You can create a virtual hard disk and add it to a virtual machine. |
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| You can add an existing hard disk to a virtual machine. |
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| You can use a raw device mapping (RDM) to store virtual machine data directly on a SAN LUN, instead of storing it in a virtual disk file. |