Installing AD/DNS in Fusion, and i took a Snapshot as current with Host-Only config. Then i preceded to install prerequisites and Exchange 2013 under Bridged mode.
After installing Exchange VM >> General size showed 25Gig approx..
The Snapshot file "i" for AD/DNS was only 9.5Gig so, when i restored i thought the size would match, but it does not..
Pre-Exchange restored ok, inclusion VM Host only, and no exchange just AD/DNS, BUT when checking size it is still 25Gig, which is too much for just AD/DNS on Windows Server
I the assumed this much be 'white space' from vmdk file... Basically the same game as ESXi datastore does when you shrink..The reason i'm using snapshots is they consume less space then a full clone... but unfortunately if i can't get size back to 9.5 or so gig, then i may as well just do full clone. as it would be easier..
Am i doing something wrong here , as virula disk in Windows shows roughly 9 Gig is right... so it must be just white space being the difference.