Hot add and hot reconfigure options

OptionDescription

Enable hot-add or
hot reconfigure in VM

Supported providers only with supported guest operating systems. 
Check that the Operating system and OS version are correctly set for your system
ESXi: See VMware documentation. After you hot-add or hot-reconfigure, remember to update your guest system as required

CPU hot-add

Enable users to add CPUs in the platform while the VM is powered on

RAM hot-add

Enable users to add RAM in the platform while the VM is powered on

Disks hot-reconfigure

Enable users to remove SCSI disks from the boot sequence and add SCSI disks to the end of the boot sequence while the VM is powered on

  • IDE disks are not supported
  • The platform will save other changes to the boot sequence but it will not implement them in the hypervisor. 
  • To implement these changes, power off the VM and make another configuration change that will trigger a reconfigure
NICs hot-reconfigureEnable users to add and remove NICs in the platform while the VM is powered on
Remote access hot-reconfigureEnable users to reset remote access in the platform while the VM is powered on.
On ESXi, if the user changes the VNC password, the change will apply after the power on

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