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Even if you expand the disk size it will not increase the volume unless you use diskpart or another utility. &nbsp;To make it easy you can always use the vmware converter which will resize the partition on the fly. &nbsp;Shut down the virtual machine, use the converter to convert and resize to a different location. &nbsp;Once completed delete the original copy and copy the resized version to the new location
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Even if you expand the disk size it will not increase the volume unless you use diskpart or another utility.  To make it easy you can always use the vmware converter which will resize the partition on the fly.  Shut down the virtual machine, use the converter to convert and resize to a different location.  Once completed delete the original copy and copy the resized version to the new location

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I'm running a virtual machine in VMware server and the hard drive is out of space. I need to to increase the hard drive space, but I keep getting the error &quot;The system cannot find the file specified&quot; when I run the command (C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server&gt;vmware-vdiskmanager<wbr />.exe -x &lt;50Gb&gt; &quot;D:\Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition\Windows Server 2003 Stan<br />
dard Edition-flat.vmdk&quot;)
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I'm running a virtual machine in VMware server and the hard drive is out of space. I need to to increase the hard drive space, but I keep getting the error "The system cannot find the file specified" when I run the command (C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x <50Gb> "D:\Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition\Windows Server 2003 Stan
dard Edition-flat.vmdk")

Can't increase the hard disk in a virtual machine using VMware-vdiskmanager.exe

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.