Expanding the IVS Disk Drive - VMware Imaging Appliance - VMware Resize HD Use this workflow when a VMware-hosted FileWave Imaging Virtual Server (IVS) needs more disk space. First expand the virtual disk in VMware, then run imaging-control increase harddrive on the IVS so the appliance grows the filesystem. For VMware The following steps will help you resize the virtual hard drive for the FileWave Imaging Appliance running on VMware. 1. Power off the virtual machine.  2. Edit the virtual machine settings and extend the virtual disk size. The screenshots below show where to increase the available disk size in VMware.    3. Power on the IVS and log in. FileWave Imaging includes an imaging-control command to expand the appliance filesystem after the VMware disk is larger. 4. Run the command below to increase the hard drive. imaging-control increase harddrive 5. When prompted with "Have you extended the hard drive in the VM settings?", answer "y". 6. Press Enter when prompted. The IVS restarts with the larger hard drive available. 7. After the IVS restarts, confirm the extra space is available before resuming imaging work.