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→Increasing VMware Server Virtual Disk Capacity
The capacity of a VMware Server 2.0 virtual disk may be increased from within the VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interfaceor from the command-line using the ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' tool. This is a web based interface which can Bioth of these approaches will be accessed by starting covered in this tutorial. == Extending a browser, either on VMware Virtual Disk from the host system on which Command Line == The size of a VMware Server virtual disk may be increased from the command line using the ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' tool. The executable file is runningnamed ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' and is located in ''\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server'' on Windows hosts, or and ''/usr/bin'' on Linux systems. The syntax for increasing the size of a virtual disk is as follows: vmware-vdiskmanager -x ''<size>'' ''filename''.vmdk where ''<size>'' is the new size of the disk and ''filename.vmdk'' is the name of the physical virtual disk image file on any other system which has network access to the host.For example, to increase the size of a virtual disk called win2008.vmdk to 100GB: <pre>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 100GB win2008.vmdk</pre> == Extending a Virtual Disk using VI Web Access ==
During the VMware Server 2.0 installation process, the installer prompted for port numbers to be used for both HTTP and HTTPS based access to the VI Web Access interface. The defaults suggested were 8222 and 8333 respectively. If other ports were specified during installation the following examples will need to be modified accordingly.
