further clarification; CS adds the data disk to the VM but since it's listed as
SCSI device 0:0, the vm is unable to find it when you do a disk rescan.
I hope this makes sense...
> From: mphilli7...@hotmail.com
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Server 2012 R2 Bug on CS 4.4.0 with vmware hypervisor
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:13:09 -0600
>
> So I was unable to add a data disk to my vm running server 2012 R2 standard,
> so I started tracking down the issue and I think I found it. So when
> provisioning a vm running server 2012 R2, CS creates the VM with the "LSI
> Logic Parallel" adapter. It looks like the only reason the machine is even
> able to boot is becuase the ROOT drive is set to be an IDE drive,
> specifically (IDE 0:1). Any data disks added to the same machine are set as
> SCSI drives. So if I added one data disk it would be listed as SCSI 0:0. So
> it seems the mismatch is between the controller type CS is using and the disk
> type. So this bring me to the major question at hand.
> For server 2012 R2 vmware natively uses the "LSI Logic SAS" controller. Why
> in the world is CS not using the same controller, and is there a way around
> this?
>
>
