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• Question about the size of my Virtual Machine

  I'm on Fusion 3.1 (and Windows XP in Fusion on a MacBookPro Leopard). I put my Windows Virtual Machine to be 40 GB size but I just ran OmniDiskSweeper and it shows that the virtual machine takes 53 GB. I see the same size in the Finder.

  Two questions: first, how is it possible for the virtual machine to limit growth, I gave him? Second, is there a way for me to downsize (safely). I did not quite in the virtual machine (mainly my installation of Windows) and a handful of programs so it's weird that she's so big.

  I have disabled Auto-protect.

  I have two snapshots, one of when I first set up the virtual machine and one of very recently. I once had a bunch of other photos but I deleted them. I mention this because I read in another thread that "orphan" instant can hang out somewhere but I don't know where to look to see if this is the reason for the growth of my virtual machine.

  Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

  Abe Z.

  AMZ1 wrote:

  One thing I didn't get your last answer: if snapshots are not backup, and the creation of a snapshot causes the basic disk that you want to stop growing, which are good for snapshots? Or in other words, your response, it looks like I should stop creating snapshots, Yes?

  In which case I should rely only on periodically manually save the virtual machine by copying in the Finder on an external drive?

  What I said was "Snapshots are not backups in the traditional sense of the word and should not be relied upon as such either." However, using clichés absolutely has merit and value but how to use them effectively and efficiently seems to escape most of the users.  As a general rule, I treat a not different Virtual Machine and a physical Machine, then when it come to back up the user data and the ability to quickly restore the entire construction as well as user data.  I use snapshots mainly for short periods of time, and then either delete them when I don't want to lose changes made along the way, or if I go back to a previous snapshot.  For example, I can run on a given snapshot and say a single snapshot for a week and if all was well I'll delete it and take another or if I need to do something that could end up with bad results I'll take a snapshot to do what I do and if I have a problem just go back to the previous snapshot or the basic disk as appropriate.  The trick is user data constantly backed up out of the Virtual Machine itself, as well as at some point in time I never have to worry about the State of and reason for any data or instant and what action I might have to or want to take.

  There are many other cases workers scenarios about how/when to use snapshots and it was just a bit of food for thought because I don't have time now to get deeper into it but the snapshots are a good thing to use as and when necessary, but do not count on them to replace the traditional methods/methodologies for backup/recovery of data user or any backup/restore system but use then as a another tool in the digital Toolbox.

• Reduce the size of VM virtual disks?

  I have a virtual machine under ESX 3.5 that has two virtual drives from 20 GB and tracks CentOS 5.3.  I would like to reduce the total size of the virtual machine to a handset of 40 GB to about 10 to 20 GB. I have a ton of free space on existing partitions.

  Here's my usage:

  1 K-blocks used available use % mounted on file system

  / dev/sdb1 20807184 5767084 13991460 30%.

  / dev/sda2 20807216 1135120 18623456 6% / show

  / dev/sda1 101086 29351 66516 31% / Boot

  tmpfs 1948132 0 1948132 0% / dev/shm

  How can I reduce these partitions, then the size of the ramdisks?

  I advise to use the free VMware Converter. This is probably the cleanest way and.

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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• How to reduce the size of the virtual disks on Fusion 3.1.2 my W7 64 bit

  A few months ago, I created a DVD install a virtual machine in Windows 7 64-bit 120 GB. I never checked the disk space until a couple of weeks and now I have two hard files over 160GB with a .vmwarevm. I have never created all the files component snap so I am confused how it happened and how to fix this?  After all, a MacBook Pro's as much disk space

  OK it looks like the Virtual Machine on which you have is "/ users/dbaps/Virtual Machines.localized/Springer31.vmwarevm" and it is only using the Springer31.vmdk virtual hard disk that is in the Document Virtual Machine Package, so I can't tell you where both .vhd files of ~ 165GB come so you'll have to deal with this on your own.  You have Parallels installed at a certain time or do you have them created with Windows 7?

  If you have VMware Tools installed and no snapshots you can use VMware Tools in the OS invited to shrink the virtual hard drive and it should reduce the size of that Windows Explorer shows how much is used.

  Also, you have assigned 4 CPU cores of the Virtual Machine and over the commitment of the processor cores will slow things down so I would attribute no more then two and that you set for 1/2 of RAM to the Virtual Machine host and this of course uses more then what you have assigned, some for the purpose of merger of VMware and some video RAM so you use really ~4.4GB of RAM just for VMware Fusion and the Virtual Machine.

• Resize the size of the disk on a virtual machine

  Hi all

  I have a virtual machine with 200 GB, would reduce the size of the drive for 100 GB?

  OS: Linux CentOS

  VMWARE ESX4.0

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 can be used to resize Windows and Linux powered sources.

  Although CentOS is not officially supported as source for Converter 4.3, RHEL 2, 3, 4 and 5 are so you could work with CentOS as well. No promises though, as it has not been tested and officially not certified.

  See page 52 of the Converter 4.3 Admin Guide at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_43_guide.pdf for more information.

• Reduce the size of the virtual hard disk

  Are there any known issues with the reduction of the size of a virtual hard drive, I have a machine that has been installed with plenty of disk space, but space is not needed now, so I was going to reduce the size in the settings. Any questions?

  So I guess you want to reduce the nominal size of the virtual disk. The VMware Converter Standalone user to achieve this. You choose your comments as the source machine and create a new clone of him while reducing the size of the hard.

  Read the Page 51 of http://www.vmware.com/pdf/converter_standalone_guide401.pdf

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• How to reduce the size of the virtual disk

  Is it possible to reduce the size of the virtual disk to a virtual machine.  If so, how?  We tried the shrink option in the VMware tools running on the virtual (Win2003) computer, but it didn't reduce the size of the unit at all.

  VMware Converter is probably the best option for fret.

• Reduce the size of the virtual disk RAID 5

  I have Windows Server 2003 is installed on a virtual disk PERC H700 RAID-5. Total size of the disk is 5.5 TB. The problem is that WinServer 2003 cannot use the disk due to the MBR 2 TB limit (and I can't convert to GPT without destroy all partitions, which is what I try to avoid). Since 3.5 TB of drive space is unallocated (and reconciliations), is there a way to reduce the size of the virtual disk to remove this space which can not be used anyway? Then, I could by using the remaining capacity to create a new virtual disk that can be set up as GPT and access the space through it (or two new virtual drives 2 TB and 1.5 TB in size). I know that you can expand a virtual disk, but you can a shrink?

  No, you can develop most of the virtual drives, but you will not be able to reduce them.

  You will have to start on this subject, creating a VD less than 2 TB for boot/OS disk, then the rest can be used in an another VD.

• Cannot start the database after reducing the size of the RAM

  Hi all

  I have a database of GR 11, 2 installed in virtual box VM. Initially, I got 3 GB of RAM for this machine (when the database has been installed).

  I then reduced it to 1 GB. Then I tried to start the database, but I got error below.

  MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

  
  

  Help, please.

  
  

  Thank you

  Mauricette.
  

  User618902-OC says:

  Is it not possible to reduce the size of the RAM and start the database with configuration on MEMORY_TARGET changes?

  What part of "MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system" do you NOT understand?

• Reduce the size of the VM disk?

  Hello

  I have a client who has an ESXi 4.0. The person who put up, set up with disc 3 x 1 TB, with 1 data store spans 3 discs, without redunancy, raid, or backup. This is my understanding of the functioning of data warehouses, that it is a bad set up.

  I want to recreate data warehouses, so there is a 1 store of data per disc, and I've only another 1 TB drive to do this, but one of the two virtual machines is defined with a size of virtual disk of 1 TB and I tried to move it to another disk of 1 TB, and it failed during the process I think because of lack of space. I was going to try to create new virtual discs and clone the readers through, but does not support the previous technology implemented servers with dynamic disks, instead of base and Acronis cloning to dynamic disks.

  So I wanted to know if there is another way to reduce the size of the virtual disk of the virtual machines, so I can recreate data warehouses. Or if anyone has any other suggestions for how can I do to recreate data warehouses without losing the servers.

  Any suggestions would be helpful and let me know if I need to provide more information, thank you!

  Hello and welcome to the communities.

  You can use VMware Converter to reduce the size of the ramdisks.

• 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

• Windows XP how to reduce the size of a pagefile

  original title: problem pagefile.sys

  I have windows XP home, 0.99 GB RAM pagefile.sys is 1524 MB can I reduce the size or can I move it into drive D

  You can not move because some programs may need, you can reduce size

  You can do this,
  1 / in the office, right click 'my computer '.
  2 / Select 'Properties' in the selection list provided.
  3 / click on the Advanced tab in the upper right window
  4 / click on the button 'Options of performance... ". »
  5 / click the button change, open the virtual memory window.
  At this point, you can select the drive from the list provided and then type it amount of memory you want dedicated to the swap file in the provided text boxes. An area is provided for the initial size and the maximum size. Simply enter the amount and don't forget to click on the Set button.

• Reduce the size of the file

  SIZE LARGE PDF FILES.

  I have a contact who uses Adobe Acrobat with an Imac and a Mac AirBook where via the ' Save as. / Preview ' option gives a choice of "reduce the size of the file.

  Using a PC and Acrobat DC, can reduce a large pdf file that you received without losing quality. I can't find this option on my PC, maybe it's something just for Apple computers?

  Thank you

  The full version of Acrobat has that, but the free software Acrobat Reader does not work.

  Yes. Mac has its own pdf generator that you wouldn't have on your Windows machine.

• reduce the size of a file OVF...

  Hello

  Whenever I have a VM machine to export to a file OVF, it seems that the file is too big. I would like to know how I can reduce the size of the file, because it is too important?

  I am using VCenter 5.1.

  Michel Vaillancourt

  Why not use an OVA which is an archive files of the FVO and then use gzip or ZIP to compress more?

• VMware Fusion 6 Professional - where is the possibility of locking VMware using a single virtual machine and do not allow the creation of new virtual machines?

  This is a quote from the VMware Fusion Professional 6 product page:

  VMware Fusion 6 Professional comes with IT administration tools to help you deploy VMware Fusion using Apple or a management solution third Mac as of JAMF's Casper Suite. Further reduce the cost of support of Windows desktop using the mode of single virtual machine that limits user access to the library of the Virtual Machine, the ability to create virtual machines or migrate PCs and reduces the options of the menu.

  Where can I find these IT administration tools?  I want to block my VMware users to a single virtual machine so that they can not blow by creating new virtual machines, etc.

  How can I do this?

  Thank you!

  Glitch004,

  You could follow the steps to activate the single mode of VM:

  1. turn power off all running VMS and out the merger.

  2. Add the following line to/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion / config

  installerDefaults.simplifiedUI = 'TRUE '.

  3 restart merger and you will find:

  . VM library is hide in the VM menu.

  . only one virtual machine can be used, while click second VM Fusion of the reports ' Unable to open document. "

  Best regards

  Shanghai