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Recreating a vmdk descriptor file with vmkfstools

August 14, 2017 Hersey 0 Comments vmdk, vmkfstools

A VMware virtual machine disk is made up of two files: the .vmdk file and the -flat.vmdk file. The .vmdk file is the descriptor file and the -flat.vmdk file contains the data.

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PowerCLI: Copy a vmdk from one VM to another

November 18, 2015 Hersey 0 Comments copy, disk, PowerCLI, vmdk

This PowerCLI script copies a Virtual Machine Disk (vmdk) from one virtual machine to another.

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Adding Disk Space to a VMware Windows Guest

April 30, 2014 Hersey 3 Comments capacity, hard disk, vmdk, vmware, Windows

It is very easy to add capacity to a virtual hard disk on Windows guest. For a Windows guest running Microsoft Windows 2008 or newer it can be done without any special utilities while the virtual machine is running.