Virtual Disk Manager commands

Apr 08

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Create a Virtual Disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -c -t 0 -s 20GB -a ide newVMDisk.vmdk

Expand the size of existing virtual disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -x 80GB existingVMDisk.vmdk

Renaming a Virtual Disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -n existingVMDisk.vmdk myNewNameDisk.vmdk
NOTE: We must remove the virtual disk before renaming it.

Defragmenting Virtual Disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk

Prepare virtual disk for shrinking

vmware-vdiskmanager -p M:

Shrinking a virtual disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk