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The previous chapter covered the management of VMware virtual disks using the VI Web Access interface and VMware Tools. Vmware 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'').
This chapter of [[VMware Server 2.0 Essentials]] will cover the use of ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' to create, defragment, shrink, rename, convert and extend VMware based virtual disks.
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The ''vmware-vdiskmanager'' command requires a number of arguments to perform a virtual disk type conversion. The syntax for a type conversion is as follows:
vmware-vdiskmanager -r ''<oldfilename>.vmdk'' -t ''<type> <newfilename>.vmdk''
