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    <title>topic Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ? in Converter Standalone Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;after wrestling with a similar issue, for far too long (deriving from a P2V, originally badly-configured server 2012 R2 server), and working through several different methods, I eventually found success by paying $180 for casper server edition, creating a correctly-sized VMDK (120GB) and cloning the 60 GB of data from the 880GB vmdk (Dell OEM partition, recovery partition, and OS partition) to the new VMDK.&amp;nbsp; After a quick rename of the old and new VMDKs, I was booting up with the 120GB VMDK.&amp;nbsp; I estimate I spent about&amp;nbsp; 10x as much in (un-)billable time as the cost of casper.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Unfortunately Casper Server Edition does not work with dynamic disks, so if you have a simple layout with already-existing dynamic disk(s), the method describe in reply 5 would probably work for you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:26:44 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>DerekShaw</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2020-08-07T20:26:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501828#M7191</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;We are running ESXi 6 Update 3.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;There is a VM running Windows 2012R2 that consists of 2 HDD (2 Separate VMDK files).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We would like to shrink the D Drive (i.e. The second VMDK file) from 500GB to 100GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We would like to know what is the best way to shrink it ?&amp;nbsp; Would it be a V2V of that VM OR can we just V2V for a particular VMDK file ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 04:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>TonyJK</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-19T04:29:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501829#M7192</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;1. Login to the Virtual Machine and shrink the Partition you want at windows level with disk management.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2. Reducing the size of the VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) with desctripter file on esxi host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Detailed steps &lt;A href="https://virtualman.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/shrink-a-vmware-virtual-machine-disk-vmdk/" title="https://virtualman.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/shrink-a-vmware-virtual-machine-disk-vmdk/"&gt;Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) – virtualman&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;V2V has its own pros and cons, check in above link and its on you which way you want to do with.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>vijayrana968</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-19T06:07:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501830#M7193</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Almost worked for me &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt; VM boots just fine but O/S never finishes loading.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:04:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>o1ramsky</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-22T10:04:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have you shrinked&amp;nbsp; the partition within Windows before you resized the VMDK? If not, you might have to roll the change back using a backup or a snapshot as lowering the size of disk without resizing the partition first in the OS might have damaged the internal OS files.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pwilk</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-22T10:12:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks Paul, but of course I have done that prior to changing VMDK.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:42:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>o1ramsky</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-22T15:42:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501833#M7196</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does the VM per chance have a "Dynamic" disk type or a logical partition? That would perhaps explain the problem - "Dynamic" disks store their partition information at the end of the device, which you've just cut off. Volumes in logical partions will be shrunk, but the logical partition itself won't shrink with it, which could also cause a problem.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Since the instructions above need some temporary space anyway, here's how I do it - I just add a new drive of the desired, smaller size to the VM. Then I shrink the volume and add a mirror to the new drive. Once that is synchronized, I break the mirror and remove the old, bigger drive. This requires conversion of "Basic" disks to "Dynamic" disks, but that hasn't been a problem for me in the past.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;HTH, bye&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Einhirn&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 07:36:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>einhirn</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-05-25T07:36:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Best way to shrink a VMDK file (D Drive) of a VM ?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501834#M7197</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;after wrestling with a similar issue, for far too long (deriving from a P2V, originally badly-configured server 2012 R2 server), and working through several different methods, I eventually found success by paying $180 for casper server edition, creating a correctly-sized VMDK (120GB) and cloning the 60 GB of data from the 880GB vmdk (Dell OEM partition, recovery partition, and OS partition) to the new VMDK.&amp;nbsp; After a quick rename of the old and new VMDKs, I was booting up with the 120GB VMDK.&amp;nbsp; I estimate I spent about&amp;nbsp; 10x as much in (un-)billable time as the cost of casper.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Unfortunately Casper Server Edition does not work with dynamic disks, so if you have a simple layout with already-existing dynamic disk(s), the method describe in reply 5 would probably work for you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:26:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Best-way-to-shrink-a-VMDK-file-D-Drive-of-a-VM/m-p/501834#M7197</guid>
      <dc:creator>DerekShaw</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-08-07T20:26:44Z</dc:date>
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