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Support Hot Add/Plug

Updated by Madhavi PavanRaj on May 04, 2020
Article Code: kb/1456

Description

Enable Hot Add/Plug: Dedicated Cloud Compute (DCC) now lets you add resources to a running virtual machine. By default, you cannot change resources ~ vCPU & vRAM to a powered on virtual machine.

Audience

Dedicated Cloud Compute customers.

Conditions that apply

How to Enable/Disable Hot Add?

  • Log-in to the new DCC UI. For more information, please refer to the Logon to New UI KB article.

Create VM: Once logged in the DCC UI, click Create > Add Server.

  • Under Resource section, select the amount of vCPU and vRAM you would like to allocate to the server(s).

  • On supported guest operating system and VMware ESXi, the Hot Add feature is pre-enabled . This can be changed to NO if Hot Add is not needed.

  • Move ahead with Create VM order.

For Existing VM : On supported guest operating system and VMware ESXi, the Hot Add feature can be enabled/disabled by changing the VM resource setting as shown below: