Mounting the Hard Disk

To mount the disk

1. Open the Virtual Machine Manager.

2. Power down the NSM 3.2.0.

3. Select the NSM 3.2.0 VM.

4. Click on the top left corner.

5. Click Add Hardware.

   

6. Click on Select or create custom storage.

7. Click Manage and select the file that we had recorded in step 4 of Unmounting the Hard Disk

   

8. Select Bus type as SCSI.

   

9. Click Finish.

10. Power on the NSM 3.2.0.

11. Click icon to open CLI console.

12. In the CLI console type "show disks".

    

13. Activate the disk. Type “disk activate”. It will reboot the VM and mount the disk on boot. Please enter the password when prompted.

    The password is the encryption key that you had configured while adding external disk in NSM 3.1.1.

    Do not perform disk initialize command while upgrading. It will delete all the data from the disk if disk initialize is performed.

    

14. After the VM reboots, the disk will be active.