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sjesse
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shrink downloaded thin vmdk

Hi

I use App Volumes, and if your not aware the software stores applications in a vmdk file that is attached to the virtual machines, and using the horizon agent that deploys the applications to that virtual machine. The default vmdk is a thinly provisioned with a max size of 20gb, so alot of these don't really use that much space. To back these up I created a script using powercli to download them to cifs share and that gets backed up in our backup system. The "issue" is when they are downloaded they are a full 20gb, and I'm not sure how to shrink them outside of when they are in esxi, if its even possible. Currently the disk share size is 2.7TB, but the storage volume thats connected to does compress it down to around 500gb, so most of that is freespace. I'd like to try and lower the space that the windows file server sees if possible.

Let me know if there are questions, I'll ask this in the appvolumes area, but this specific topic I think has nothing to do with that software.

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