Resize Disk

You can increase the disk size for your scanner appliance instance at any time, as often as needed.

Perform the following steps to resize the disk:

1. Stop the instance.
2. Find the Hard Disk or Storage option in your Virtual Machine settings, and increase the disk size (reducing the size is not supported).
3. Save your settings and start up your scanner.

Your scanner instance must come up with the new disk size.

Here is an example from the VMware ESXi/vCenter platform.

Convert Image to Another Format

Scanner image disks are available in VMDK and VHD formats. The qemu-img tool supports converting these into any format; for example, you can convert VMDK or VHD to QCOW2 or RAW.

The following command provides a list of supported formats:

qemu-img -h

The following steps describe how to convert an OVA file (with VMDK disk format) to QCOW2 and import it into the KVM hypervisor as a Linux/RedHat Enterprise virtual machine.

1. On a Linux system, install the qemu-img tool.
2. Download the Standard image in OVA format from Qualys (for example, qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1.ova).
3. Extract the .vmdk disk image file from OVA as follows:
   #] tar xvf qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1.ova
   This will extract a qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1-disk1.vmdk file in the same location.
4. Convert the .vmdk disk image to .qcow2 format as follows:
   #] qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1-disk1.vmdk qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1-disk1.qcow2
5. Import qVSA.i386-2.2.27-1-disk1.qcow2 into KVM as a Linux/RedHat Enterprise virtual machine.