Narrowing of a disk virtual (I know this has been discussed before...)

I know this has been discussed before, but I can't find a situation quite like mine and wanted to make sure that I had all my options in front of me before I did anything. It's on a box with ESXi 4.1, build 260247.

I have a virtual machine with two virtual disks: one for the operating system and one for data. One for data is 1.6 to and has two partitions: 1.1 to and a 500 GB. I would like to delete the 500 GB partition and then reduce the virtual 500 GB disk so that I can use this space on other virtual machines.

The most popular way that I found in my research is to use the VMware converter to make a copy of it and adjust the size of the disks. That however, does not seem a very viable option. There is no additional local storage to put the VM convertered files, then it will have to be written to a network device any. This combined with the fact that I would copy the OS partition too much (that I don't need), makes this option in way too slow.

My only idea is to copy all the data on the virtual disk's data to a network device or a USB (through the USB transfer), delete the virtual disk, re-create it with the appropriate size and copy the data back.

Is there a more easy/fast way to do this? I'd appreciate any help.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, the converter is the only option I know for shrink disc. However, due to the situation, I think that the copy is going to be the best method for you.

Another option is converting only select the player data to convert to the new virtual machine, shrink, migrate over and import it into the existing virtual machine after you remove the other VM. Its a roundabout way, may be slower and not also require that you have the space, but it is another option.

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