• Repairing a virtual disk in Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1 (1023856)
• Virtual Disk Manager User’s Guide (Virtual Disk Development Kit)
• Virtual Disk Manager User’s Guide (Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.2)
• http://superuser.com/questions/373600/merging-of-vmdk-files-to-single-vmdk-diskname-or-some-other-argument-is-missin

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• Paraméterek:

  VMware Virtual Disk Manager - build 227600.
  Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager OPTIONS <disk-name> | <mount-point>
  Offline disk manipulation utility
    Operations, only one may be specified at a time:
       -c                   : create disk.  Additional creation options must
                              be specified.  Only local virtual disks can be
                              created.
       -d                   : defragment the specified virtual disk. Only
                              local virtual disks may be defragmented.
       -k                   : shrink the specified virtual disk. Only local
                              virtual disks may be shrunk.
       -n <source-disk>     : rename the specified virtual disk; need to
                              specify destination disk-name. Only local virtual
                              disks may be renamed.
       -p                   : prepare the mounted virtual disk specified by
                              the mount point for shrinking.
       -r <source-disk>     : convert the specified disk; need to specify
                              destination disk-type.  For local destination disks
                              the disk type must be specified.
       -x <new-capacity>    : expand the disk to the specified capacity. Only
                              local virtual disks may be expanded.
       -R                   : check a sparse virtual disk for consistency and attempt
                              to repair any errors.
       -D                   : make disk deletable.  This should only be used on disks
                              that have been copied from another product.
  
    Other Options:
       -q                   : do not log messages
  
    Additional options for create and convert:
       -a <adapter>         : (for use with -c only) adapter type
                              (ide, buslogic, lsilogic). Pass lsilogic for other adapter types.
       -s <size>            : capacity of the virtual disk
       -t <disk-type>       : disk type id
  
    Options for remote disks:
       -h <hostname>        : hostname of remote server
       -u <username>        : username for remote server
       -f <filename>        : file containing password
       -P <port>            : optional TCP port number (default: 902)
       -S                   : specifies that the source disk is remote, by default
                              the remote options are assumed to refer to the
                              destination.
    Disk types:
        0                   : single growable virtual disk
        1                   : growable virtual disk split in 2GB files
        2                   : preallocated virtual disk
        3                   : preallocated virtual disk split in 2GB files
        4                   : preallocated ESX-type virtual disk
        5                   : compressed disk optimized for streaming
        6                   : thin provisioned virtual disk - ESX 3.x and above
  
       The capacity can be specified in sectors, KB, MB or GB.
       The acceptable ranges:
                             ide adapter : [1MB, 950.0GB]
                             scsi adapter: [1MB, 950.0GB]

• Példák:

  1. vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 850MB -a ide -t 0 myIdeDisk.vmdk

  2. vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk

  3. vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk

  4. vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36GB myDisk.vmdk

  5. vmware-vdiskmanager -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk

  6. vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 4 -h esx-name.mycompany.com -u username -f passwordfile "[storage1]/path/to/targetDisk.vmdk"

  7. vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk

  8. vmware-vdiskmanager -p "<mount-point>"

     (A virtual disk first needs to be mounted at <mount-point>)