How change the type of disk in VMs?

[WilliamsPad007]

Hi communiy

I have some VMs that the type of disk is thick, I want to change this behavior to thin to save storage. I have a ESXi host, Can someone help me  with alternatives? Thanks so much

Best Wishes

[continuum]

If you think the  win in available space is worth the additional risk use

vmkfstools  -i existing-thick.vmdk new-thin.vmdk -d thin
when the VM is powered off

or use storage-vmotion while the VM is running.

[WilliamsPad007]

Dear @continuum 

Thanks fot the suggestion, I want to probe and I'll let you know if it works

Thanks  a lot