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SATA enables you to resize hard disks (, with the same restrictions as SCSI: thin provisioned disks with no snapshots) and . See VMware. It also enables you to hot reconfigure them. It is also possible to disks. And you can add and remove ISO disks with hot-reconfigure.
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The platform will not automatically remove an unused SATA controller from a VM.
Configure SATA
For technical limitations and SATA configuration options, see Configure SATA for VMware hypervisors
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