Shrink a vm

[Cklein09]

I have two questions:

1. I have a vm, 200gb. That was a stupid decision before. I want to shrink it to 40gb, thus free space on in the data store. what should I do? What I'd the easiest way?

2. Is it possible for vm esx to create a storage space for all the vas to access? I can create a vmdisk now, and attach it to a vm, and other vm can map a drive to it. But the limitation is 256gb. I need a bigger drive. Just wondering if I can create a drive that can be accessed by everybody else on the network. If not, it is kind of limited, I would be careful to give any more storage to vm esx anymore. Looks like it is not good at managing storage.

[athlon_crazy · Accepted solution]

1) Use converter is not a bad decision

2) Bigger drive require proper vmfs block size. To change your existing vmfs block size, you need to reformat it first. Drive which can be access from everybody in the network can be done via NFS.

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[Cklein09]

GOD, I didn't know of this converter! It rocks!