How to shrink the VMDK file?

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• How to shrink the VMDK on ESXi

  I need to reduce a virtual machine that is running on a server ESXi.  Is this possible?

  The easiest way would be to use the VM V2V conversion tool and resize the disk during the conversion.

• Unable to shrink the VMDK disk file

  I have a Winxp virtual machine, and it was created with a 40 GB SCSI disk, VMWare has recommended.  I used to transfer all kinds of data to and from it, and I noticed that kept virtual disk file becomes larger.

  The Windows file as well as all my personal files are total about 4.7 GB.  But the VMDK file is not less 21,7 GB...

  After that it shrinks normally did not work, I started the machine virtual in Parted Magic and effectively narrowed the entire NTFS partition up to 5 GB - the other 35 showing as empty space.  But still, I tried shrinking and he defragmentation on 7 times, he didn't budge 21,7 GB.  I even tried to make the option "Get ready to shrink" inside Windows itself, using VMWare Tools, which also did nothing...

  I tried in fact to create a new virtual machine identical with a 5 GB drive, then copy the partition through (I had copied on a flashdrive using CloneZilla) - but for some reason, XP does not start if I do that.  Even to make all stages of repair does not fix.

  So could someone please understand why this file on the disc is so obnoxiously huge for a 4.7 GB VM and how can I reduce the VMDK?  I really need keep the hard drive space and it seems really stupid...

  the other 35 showing as space vacuum

  That's the problem. The process of narrowing in VMware Workstation focuses first on the unused space on the partitions, and then shrink the VMDK file. The free space on the disc does contain not more than one partition, it will not be zero. To resolve this problem, you can temporarily create an additional NTFS partition on unused disk space.

  André

• How to associate VM Windows drive letters with the vmdk file?

  Guys,

  I couldn't find a forum ESX 3.5, so post the question here.

  # vmware - v
  VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-317866

  with Windows 2003 SP2 invited and many readers of mouted on clients.

  I need to know how to map the Windows drive letters to the vmdk files on the host. for example

  C:\ > hand NET
  

  Share name resource remark

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  $           R:\                             Default share
  $           B:\                             Default share
  $           C:\                             Default share
  $           S:\                             Default share
  $           X:\                             Default share
  $           P:\                             Default share
  $           Y:\                             Default share
  $           Q:\                             Default share
  $           I:\                             Default share
  $           F:\                             Default share
  $           W:\                             Default share
  $           G:\                             Default share
  $           D:\                             Default share
  $           T:\                             Default share
  

  
  

  [root@esx01 DB1] # ls-l *.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_1 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 285615325184 6 June 2008 DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 1073741824 6 June 2008 DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 363 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 128849018880 6 June 2008 DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 37580963840 Sep 26 17:58 DB1 - flat hard
  -rw - 1 root root 337 14 Jul 22:02 DB1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 287762808832 8 November 2008 FOO-DB1_1 - rdm.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 364 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 21474836480 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 42949672960 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 350 10 October 2009 FOO - DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_6 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_6.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_7 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_7.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 161061273600 Sep 27 2008 FOO - DB1 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1.vmdk

  I need to know what vmdk is used for the drive in the Windows of the client prompt. I'm afraid that I could not understand it in the vmware.log or hostd.log files.

  Thank you!

  Steve

  Hi Steve

  You cannot map the drive letter for the vmdk directly, but you can map the drive Win on a specific vm using the SCSI number

  An easy way to map the vmdk with disks of Windows is:

  On the virtual machine 'change settings', note in down all the vDisks SCSI address example (disc 1 = SCSI (0:1), 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4)))

  If you go to Windows disk management and right click the individual disks and select Properties, you will see that target and LUN ID discs

  where for 1 HDD = SCSI (0:1), 0 is target ID and LUN 1 ID and 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4), 2 is target ID and LUN 4 ID

  You map just for numbers of hard disk drive letters

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• Re: How to save the video file to a DVD-R for Equium A200

  I have the Equium A200. Someone can tell me how to save the video file to a DVD-R on my computer in order to use it later, or use it in windows movie maker and must not simply copy on another DVD-R right?

  My cursor also has disappered in the suite of windows media, that makes life quite difficult.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you.

  You mean, you want to copy the original DVD movie to HARD drive?
  Well, you can copy the contents of the entire DVD to the HARD drive. It means that you have to copy a lot of data.
  I would recommend shrinking the DVD movies using a tool called DVD shrink.
  It would decrease the data and would also copy the content to the HARD drive.

  But if you want to use these files later in windows movie maker, so you must convert these using a 3rd party tool.
  Google a bit and you should find many free applications that would help you to do this work.

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• Clone host (error caused by the vmdk file)

  Hello

  We try to clone the server to a scsi with resources as:

  

  
  During the operation of clone, a 'problem' error caused by the vmdk file is thrown and clone to work stoppages. Server uses thin provisioned (40 GB) and thick (250 GB) / place.

  My question is: in target store, is 579 GB free space and space end implemented is 503 GB. While cloning thick storage (250 GB), do we need at least 250 GB of capacity between space free and put into service? If this is not the case, how can I solve my problem of clone?

  Thank you for your attention...

  Yes, you need this amount of free space (at least 250 GB freespace) available between the space free and put into service.

  TM

• Cannot reduce the size of the VMDK file

  OK, here's my story:

  I started with the growable virtual 40 GB HD default mapped as C:\ on my virtual machine. The HD received complete and had poor performance and I converted it to a prealloue 100 GB HD. It worked OK for a while, but then I created a new virtual HD mapped as D:\ to store data.

  So my problem was C:\ was too big which made backup of the virtual machine of your time, and I thought I have to resize C:\ 30 GB. My first test was to convert it to a HD growable. This remains a 100 GB on the host vmdk file.

  Then, I used the two compacts from the GUI and stop at the command prompt on the convert HD Nope, still 100 GB vmdk file on the host.

  Then I used a disk management program to reduce the size of the c:\ partition with 30 GB and run both shrink and compact again. Guess what, the vmdk file is always 100 GB.

  I'm running out of ideas on what to do to reduce the size of the vmdk file. Any ideas?

  Yes, I did, but I used compact from the GUI and stop at the command line (vmware - vmdiskmanager.exe). At that time I didn't there's a shrink option in VMWare tools.

  In this case try to diminish with the extra partition (temporary).

  Which converter you were referring to in your previous post?

  VMware Converter Standalone 4.3

  André

• Rename the vmdk file?

  Is it possible to rename a VMDK file?

  Ive traveled to the data store and can see the vmdk file and also the - file ctk.vmdk but when I right click the option rename is gray.

  So, how do rename you?

  Thank you

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  You can rename the vmdk and not rename the object itself, but the vmx file needs to point the the renamed disk files.  It is in this article, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002491, which I pointed out above.

  in the .vmx file, you will see something like

  scsi0:0.fileName = "OpenSUSE.vmdk"
  

  .

• The Vmdk file size

  Hello.

  I have an ESX 4.0.0 host and I created a new virtual machine on this subject, to install WIN 2003.

  When configure the virtual disk, I put the 18 GB disk and selected size space Allocate and commit on request option (thin Provisioing).

  The following steps are fine and smooth. The installation is good and VM can be saved on the local HARD disk. It could work like I want.

  In the end, I logged in the ESX sever to check how the size of the VMDK file has been generated.

  Result as below.

  $ ls - lh

  total of 9.7 G

  -rw - 1 root root 1.0 G the 31 mai 10:43 vm - 17412363.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 17G 31 May 17:51 vm1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 31 mai 11:06 vm.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 469 31 mai 10:45 vm.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 May 31 10:40 vm.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root, 2.9 K 31 mai 10:43 vc01.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 259 the 31 mai 10:40 vm.vmxf

  -rw - rr 1 root root 110 K 31 mai 17:18 vmware.log

  I felt that it is fake!

  Why is the total size of 9.7 GB but vm1 - flat hard file is 17 GB?

  It's over the total size. It seems strange to... isn't it?

  Then I was loggin to WIN2003 (vm) and make sure how the C drive size.

  C drive has been total 16.9 and GB 8,44 available...

  The C drive size is perhaps skirtss size. It is a good idea.

  but WHY the total size is 9.7 GB? AND tell me the breakdown of this total size of the file.

  Can someone explain to me?

  Help me ~ ~ ~

  Thank you!

  Hello!

  VM1 - flat hard is sparesefile and signals the total maximum size of the disk.

  And 9.7 total disk space used, log + swap files.

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