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vijayrana968
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Reclaim space from ESXI local datastore.

While building my lab, I allocated 100 GB disk to each of 5 ESXIs without realizing I would deploy Freenas and will use most of it for all ISOs and VMs. Now I am feeling that 500 GB allocated space for ESXIs is waste as I could limit it to 30-40 or 50 GB. Is there any way to reclaim 60 GB from each local datastore/disk of each ESXI ? 90% space is free from each datastore as of now.

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BenLiebowitz
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If there are no VMs on them, they're not being used for Host Isolation, etc.  You can just remove the LUN, resize it, and present it again. 

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vijayrana968
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These are ravello nested esxi VMs I have deployed and 100 GB single disk is assigned to each. I won't able to remove disk as esx is installed on this disk itself.

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BenLiebowitz
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Sorry, I do not believe there is a way to shrink the drive that ESXi is installed on.  You're going to have to deploy a new host and then destroy the larger one.

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RAJ_RAJ
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Hi ,

Space reclaim will happen if you remove any files and ran commands  . But for a esxi virtual machine ( nested environment ) , i am not sure   .

But for other OS you may try below , also since its vm  you can try .

https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/12938/HOW-TO-Shrink-a-VMware-Virtual-Machine-Disk-VMDK-in-...

RAJESH RADHAKRISHNAN VCA -DCV/WM/Cloud,VCP 5 - DCV/DT/CLOUD, ,VCP6-DCV, EMCISA,EMCSA,MCTS,MCPS,BCFA https://ae.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-radhakrishnan-76269335 Mark my post as "helpful" or "correct" if I've helped resolve or answered your query!
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