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vipes27
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‎08-04-2011 11:09 AM

Reduce Disk Size on VM

We just got our environment up and running and had a 3rd party do the implementation and the first server build. They gave the VM a 100 GB drive, but it only needs to be 10 GB. Is there a way to reduce it or do I have to recreate it? In the VCenter, I clicked on Edit Settings under the server and changed the Virtual Disk size, but it didn't update. Do I need to shutdown the VM to make the change? We're on ESXi 4.1.

Thanks.

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a_p_
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‎08-04-2011 11:23 AM

The most straight forward way to reduce the size of the virtual disk is to use the VMware Converter and do a V2V. The Converter will allow you to select the desired size of the target disk (depending on the guest OS) in step 3 if you select volume based conversion.

André

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vipes27
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‎08-04-2011 11:47 AM

Is that in the vSphere Client? Sorry, I'm just learning this.

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a_p_
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‎08-04-2011 12:38 PM

No need to apologize. You can download the VMware Converter at http://www.vmware.com/go/download-converter

André

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