Can you dial back thin provisioned space for a VM after the fact within vCenter

[henry857]

I know you the standalone converter can accomplish this, but I can't seem to do this within vCenter itself. I basically have a Windows OS template that has a vDisk containing the boot partition set to 100GB thin provisioned. It's actually only using just under 15GB and I want to cut this in half and make it 50GB thin provisioned. What is the easiest way of doing this that is clean?

[JimKnopf99]

Hi,

check this kb file. Maybe it works for you.

VMware KB: Growing, thinning and shrinking virtual disks for VMware ESX and ESXi

frank

[JimKnopf99 · Accepted solution]

You could also use the vmware converter to shrink the disk

frank