How to decrease the size of the thick disk?

I'm trying to correct a mistake that I did a couple of years ago, when I created my first VMware ESXi 4 server. I have 2 virtual machines hosted on it, one of them is an Exchange server running on Windows 2008 R2, and the other is a Sonicwall virtual email security appliance.

Got 1.82 TB of disk space, so I made the largest possible data store I could and divided between 2 virtual machines (virtual appliance, Sonicwall got 82 GB and the Exchange Server has got everything). This leave me with 6.50 GB free.

I am currently evaluating the Trilead VM Explorer backup program and found that 6.5 GB is not enough free space, if I want to surely hot backups due to space taken snapshots.

It turned out that I was using only about 25% of the space allocated for the Exchange Server, so I shrunk the partition up to about 1 TB using the Windows 2008 R2 disk management tool.

However, I was able to find a way to reduce the same way the data store. Is there an easy way to do this? Since it hosts our Exchange Server, the minimum stopping time (if any) is important.

Although it may require downtime, I'd go with the V2V conversion, especially for a system with an application such as Exchange Server. As a side note, you can speed up the VMware Converter 5 significantly by disabling SSL (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2020517).

André

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