Hi,
I converted a VM from Hyper-V to vSphere. To eliminate any surprises during conversion of this critical machine I didn't want to resize huge
partition that was initially 400GB. The only thing I adjusted was provisioning that I set to Thin. It is fine for this machine (no intensive activity).
The actual Data on partition is 40GB (over 2 years). So I shrinked the partition to 100GB within Windows DISKMGMT.
So I have 100GB partition on 400GB vmdk with Thin provisioning.
The questions:
1. Is there a way to resize the above vmdk to partition size without shutting down the server?
I guess not...
2. What will be the best (secure) way to proceed?
3. Is it correct that if current 400GB is on Thin provisioned vmdk the data store usage is equal to only actual VM(vmdk's and config) size?
If the above is correct there is probably no need to resize vmdk because this VM will never use more than defined Windows partitions. Right?
Thanks.