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Viktor_2018
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Reducing the virtual disk

Colleagues, good afternoon!

Using what to reduce the size of the virtual disk? If I set the disk size to 700 GB, how to make it 200 GB? Previously running VMware-converter-en-6.2.0-8466193 on a virtual machine and converted to another ESXI

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daphnissov
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The only supported way to reduce a VM disk is by using VMware Converter to convert it to a new, smaller VM.

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daphnissov
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The only supported way to reduce a VM disk is by using VMware Converter to convert it to a new, smaller VM.

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BerndtSchumann
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If we talk of unsupported ways but those that do work you might want to take a look at Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) – virtualman

The article is based on the standalone client but you can safely use the web one. I tried this multiple times and it worked for me flawlessly.

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