Fragged disk

[blackpuma]

What can be done about this? I have a VM that, upon powering down, nags me with the following, but there does not appear to be any such button, such as exists in Workstation.

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A virtual disk is fragmented affecting the virtual machine's performance.

To improve disk performance, defragement the following virtual disk(s): ide1:1

After you power off the virtual machine, go to Virtual Machine Settings, select the virtual disk and click the Defragment button.

[admin · Accepted solution]

There's currently no GUI way to do this. While the VM is off, you could try running

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -d /path/to/vmdk[/code]

[blackpuma]

That's helpful. Thank you.

It also turns out that particular VM has a number of Workstation-generated snapshots that Fusion wasn't seeing. I copied to VM, stripped it down &c. with Workstation. It's running much faster.