Re-sizing Virtual Disks. There are several methods to re-sizing virtual disks listed below.
If you want to shrink the disk in ESX3 then using VMmware Converter is the best way to do this, you can no longer use vmkfstools to shrink a disk in ESX3, you can also try using QpartEd to shrink a disk. With all these methods you should make a backup copy of your original vmdk file in case something goes wrong. Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor: Bare Metal Hypervisor (Based on VMware ESXi) Clone VM under ESXi using SSH. So, you’ve deployed VMware ESXi and successfully deployed your first VM.
Now you are looking for the “clone” function that used to feature in the VMware Server of old. I have some bad news, they’ve taken it away from the free VSphere management application – its now a feature you have to pay for. “Thats ok, i’ll just SSH in and cp the files like I used to using VMware Server 2″… well, bad news again, its not that simple anymore. You have to do a little bit of hackery, simple hackery mind First step is to enable SSH on ESXi.