vSphere: Safely remove hardware after upgrade to HW version 7
For those of you who may have noticed the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the taskbar after upgrading your VMs to virtual hardware version 7, this is normal behaviour!
It’s caused by a very nice and new feature in vSphere - ”hot plug” of items like vNICS and SCSIadapters.
This feature is very nice for most VM’s, but for servers where many users log in (terminal servers) it could be a wish to disable this feature.
To disable this, you need to add a row in the VM “Options”:
Edit Settings on the VM, and go to the “Options” tab. Select “General” in the pane on the left, and select “Configuration Parameters” on the pane on the right. From there, select “Add Row” and enter “devices.hotplug” and provide a VALUE of “false”:
