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Description of hard disks feature
This feature creates enables users to create non-persistent hard disks on the hypervisor datastore. When the user undeploys the VM or detaches the hard disk the platform will destroy the data on the hard disk.
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By default the virtual hard disks feature is enabled for the platform . Only but only the cloud administrator has the privilege to manage virtual hard disks.
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To enable other users to add, edit, and remove disks, assign the "Manage virtual machine hard disks" privilege.
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