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Vmkfstools -X 10GB /vmfs/volumes/myVMFS/disk.vmdk You can have other suboptions for the newly-created virtual disk. This means you would like to create a virtual disk of 2048MB in the specified directory. Vmkfstools -c 2048m /vmfs/volumes/myVMFS/disk.vmdk

Now, open the command-line interface to let vmkfstools work for you. Vmkfstools -i source.vmdk -d thin converted_source.vmdk Vmkfstools utilization best practices After converting qcow2 to vmdk format, you still need to use vmkfstools to make sure it can work on ESXi host. Sometimes you might want to use virtual disk from another virtual environment on VMware ESXi host, like importing qcow2 virtual disk to ESXi host. With vmkfstools, you can create virtual disk, convert the disk type between thin provisioned disk and thick provisioned disk, change the size of vmdk file, rename vmdk file, clone virtual disk, etc. In VMware environment, it is the vmdk file in the VM folder. Virtual disk is one of the important components of a VM because it stores VM data and can be used for VM backup and migration. Vmkfstools is the command for VMware users to manage VMFS volumes, storage devices, and virtual disk. VMware is a mature virtualization solution and provides many official tools and commands for virtual environment management like vmfstools command. To monitor and control VM performance, IT administrators need to use command line or professional tools.

Virtual machine can work like physical machine but it has no real hardware because it just exists on the host as a folder.

Compared with physical environment, virtual environment requires many new skills. Virtualization technology has been increasingly utilized by more and more companies.