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The previous chapter covered the management of VMware virtual disks using the VI Web Access interface and VMware Tools. VMware also provides the option to perform a wide range of virtual disk management tasks from the command line using the Virtual Disk Manager tool (''vmware-vdiskmanager'').

== The VMware Virtual Disk Manager Command Line Tool ==

The VMware Virtual Disk Manager command line tool is installed by default along with VMware products such as VMware Server. The executable file is named ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' and is installing in ''Program Files\VMware\VMware Server'' on Windows hosts, and ''/usr/bin'' on Linux. The tool accepts a wide range of command line arguments, a summary of which may be obtained by running the tool with no command-line arguments:

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vmware-vdiskmanager -d win2008.vmdk

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