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VMware Workstation Pro 14 now supports virtual NVMe drives.
What is the easiest way to convert existing virtual SCSI disk to the new virtual NVMe disk?
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“SCSI is a serial protocol, so when you're trying to talk to disk devices that are attached to a SCSI controller, you can only talk to them one at a time,” Burgener says. “NVMe lets you have up to 64,000 simultaneous outstanding requests, so you can get a lot more devices on the back end.
You can use an NVM Express (NVMe) controller from ESXi 6.5 and Hardware Version 13. NVMe is a logical device interface specification for accessing nonvolatile storage media attached through a PCI Express (PCIe) bus in real and virtual hardware.
The first step is to get Windows to load the new drivers. This can be done by adding a second drive to the computer:
The second step is to manually modify the .vmx file:
Taken from http://techninotes.blogspot.com/2017/10/migrating-existing-virtual-machines-to.html.
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