I am using PowerCLI 5.5 on vSphere 5.0.
I am trying to deploy VMDKs which were created with a switch in Symantec Ghost that defaults the hard disk to IDE. How can I change the HD from IDE to SCSI using PowerCLI?
We are also looking at regenerating the VMDKs with the correct setting in Ghost, but that may not be feasible.
I looked at the post below, which seems close, but doesn't tell me how to change the Type only the Disk ID number.
Any way to set Virtual Device Node / SCSI Disk ID?
When I look at the vmdk on the host for the VM, I can see that the ddb.adapterType field is set to "ide" and per KB 1016192 - Converting a virtual IDE disk to a virtual SCSI disk
I need it to be set to "lsilogic", but I can't manually edit the vmdk file.
Also, the Hard drive has the VM operating system already installed on it, so I don't want to just delete it.
Another related problem is that I can't set the SCSi Controller type from LSI Logic SAS to LSI Logic Parallel (the windows VMs won't start if it's set to LSI Logic SAS). I just get an "Incompatible backing specified for device 0" error.
Appreciate any ideas.
