How do I reduce provisioned size in VMware?

The only supported way to reduce the size of a disk by VMware is to use standalone converter and carry out a V2V and during the converter wizard you can specify the size of the disk. You will end up with a copy of the VM with the correct disk size and you can simply delete the original VM.

How do I change the provisioned size in VMware?

Changing the thick or thin provisioning of a virtual disk (…

Power off the virtual machine.
In vSphere Client, right-click the virtual machine in the inventory.
Click Edit Settings to display the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
Select the appropriate hard disk in the Hardware list.

How do I shrink a VMware fusion disk?

First, click the “Defragment” button under Disk utilities to defragment the virtual machine’s disk. When VMware finishes the defragmentation process, click the “Compact” button under Disk utilities. VMware will compact the underlying virtual hard disk (. vmdk) files to free up space.

How do you shrink a thin provisioned VMDK?

What I am thinking of is:

migrate the VM to another datstore, selecting “Thick Provisioned” as the target format.
run sdelete within the guest OS to zero out unused blocks.
migrate the VM back to the original datastore, selecting “Thin Provisioned” in the wizard.

Can I change from thick to thin provisioning VMware?

It’s possible to convert a thick provisioned disk to a thin one in a bunch of clicks thanks to the powerful vSphere Web Client, for VMware ESXi virtual machines. It’s also possible to perform the inverse operation. Before starting, VMware doesn’t allow to directly convert a thick provisioned disk to a thin one.

Can you expand a thick provisioned disk?

8 Replies. You right click on the VM, edit settings, and increase the size of the drive. In Windows, you open disk management and expand the volume. It doesn’t matter if the disk was thin provisioned or thick provisioned, the process for expanding it is the same.

Can you shrink a VMDK file?

The only supported method of shrinking a VMware virtual machine disk (VMDK) is to use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and create a virtual to virtual (V2V) conversion, a similar process to a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion. V2V Conversions can be slow.

Can you shrink a VMDK?

Can I delete VMDK files?

vmdk file from the backup virtual machine, you can delete the file using normal methods. NOTE: Before deleting the VM/VMDK. Make sure the VM or VMDK which you are deleting is not part of backup or added to proxy server.

How do I change from thick to thin in VMware?

Convert thick provisioned to thin with vmkfstools in ESXi Shell (command line)

Check VMware hard disk type.
Shut down VM.
Enable SSH on VMware ESXi host.
SSH into the ESXi host.
Navigate to the VM folder.
Clone the VMDK to a thin provisioned disk using vmkfstools.
Rename old flat file.
Rename new flat file.

How do you change thick provisioned lazy zeroed to eager zeroed?

How to convert a Lazy Zeroed disk to Eagerly on Vmware

Step 1:Check where Vmware stored on ESX servers.
Step 2:Connect and logon ESX server which you determined at step 1:
Step 3:Check disk location that you need to convert.
Step 4:Connect ESX server and start operation.

How do you expand a thick provisioned lazy zeroed disk?

How do I refresh disk space in VMware Fusion?

VMware Fusion. In VMware Fusion, first power down a virtual machine. You can’t do this while a virtual machine is powered on or suspended. In the main VMware Fusion window, select a virtual machine and click the “Refresh Disk Space” icon to the right of its disk usage, at the bottom right corner of the window.

Is there a way to shrink a VMware disk?

Maybe it works with Linux if you have VMWare tools installed. If you are running a version of VMWare which supports thin provisioned disks then the VMDK size can be smaller than what the OS sees and the VMDK grows as you use more space in the VM. If your machine has a disk like this then all you have to do is start the shrink process.

Where do I find preallocated disk space in VMware?

Check whether it says “Preallocated” next to the disk’s size in the Summary view or not. On VMware Fusion, select a virtual machine and click Virtual Machine > Settings > Hard Disk > Advanced options. Check whether the “Pre-allocate disk space” option under Advanced options is checked or not.

How can I reduce the size of my Virtual Machine?

With the virtual machine powered off, select it and click “Edit virtual machine settings”, or right-click it and select “Settings”. Click the “Hard Disk” option in the device list on the Hardware tab. First, click the “Defragment” button under Disk utilities to defragment the virtual machine’s disk.