Reduce the size of the VM disk?

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• Unable to reduce the virtual disk (Linux RHE 5.4) with converter standalone 4.0.1

  I recently did a V2V with VMware Converter 4.0.1 to move a virtual machine running Linux Red Hat Enterprise VMware Server 2.0 on ESX 3.5 5.4.

  I was surprised to be unable to change the size of the partition. I have a 20 GB partition but only 3 GB is used. So I would reduce it to have a 5 GB partition.

  How can I change the size of partition? I know with Windows, it works well, why with Linux can not do the same?

  Thank you

  Olivier

  Found that in the Manual:

  Limitations of VMware Converter STandalone according to the OS you run the converter on:

  If you run:

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows XP

  • Windows Vista

  • Windows Server 2008

  Here are the limitations:

  • Disk cloning only for Linux clients.

  • Reconfiguration or customization for Linux clients is not supported.

  • Installation of the VMware Tools for clients Linux is not supported.

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• How can I reduce the size of the hard drive of my guest? (Ubuntu server)

  Hi all

  When I built my (Ubuntu Server 12.04) VM guest on VMware ESXi 5.1, I was a little over zealous and create it with a 500 GB hard drive. I found now that a 100 GB would easily suffice.

  I would like to reduce the hard disk up to 100 GB. How can I do this? It seems pretty obvious, how on Windows using the stand-alone converter but on Ubuntu server? I have no idea where to start and I can't find any info!

  Also, could someone please explain to me why the real used on this prompt on the host drive is 500 GB? When you use VMWorkstation the right file size grows with disk space actually used the guest. Then under ESXi, the size of the file begins at the size you specified for the server. This can be changed?

  Thanks in advance.

  Export OVF model is the one you want. This allows you to save the entire VM to one or several files (unique).

• VMware Tools: Shrinkage of the virtual disks - what is - this intended?

  Hello

  Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the "Reduction of the virtual disks' in VMware Tools used for?  It seems to me that 'reduce the virtual disks' is the only thing that it does not.

  I have a virtual disk in a virtual machine with Windows 2003 Std x 64.  A 'volume' (a partition on a dynamic disk) disk occupies 10 GB on a virtual disk.  The rest of the space on the virtual disk is not assigned.  I want to "shrink" the virtual disk to recover the unallocated space.  But the function "reduce virtual disks" VMware Tools seems to allow me only to "shrink" the disk volume or partition.  I want to reduce the virtual disk.

  What Miss me?

  Thank you.

  Your best best for shrink disk is to use VMware vCenter Converter.  The fret is more than one optimization tool, a bit like a Defrag tool, but will not reduce the size of the disk of the virtual computer.

  Here is a good article

  http://www.RTFM-ed.co.UK/?p=40

• Reduced block size but no big change on the disk storage

  Hi all
  
  This is my first post on this forum and I hope that I won't have any rule of Recommendation to report a question completely distinguish...
  
  I need your advice on the disk storage of a BSO cube, here are the details:
  
  Make tests on a cube of OSI, I reduced the size of the block of 76 032' to 11'232 bytes. Then, I was interested to check if the disk storage has been reduced... So, I took the same set of data and loaded into the old structure as well as in the new structure. For both structures, I have applied exactly the same calc script + has not changed any other settings (such as "cache" for example).
  
  When I checked the results, I was really surprised because with the same set of data, it must 13go to the old structure and still 10 GB for the new even if the size of the block is really small... I've heard that "compression" could play a role here, but except for the compression, you have an idea of the reason why the disk storage is not smaller whith the new block size?
  
  Thanks in advance for your different tips and best regards,
  Laurent

  P.S: the density is not very good because I tried to do tests on a smaller data set than the real...

  ^ ^ ^ You just stated that all of the data is not representative and is actually smaller than reality. So that means you load (approximately) the same set of data in large blocks and small blocks. Guess what happens when it is compressed...

  To answer your question, the real test would be, for a number of limited but representative of blocks (good luck with that one), blocks of size reduced and complete tests. That will give you real world block size.

  BTW, I'm guessing / hoping that you did all members of dense upper level dynamics. There is almost never (well, sometimes, but really very rarely) a reason to store the dense upper limbs at level. A large part of the time forms dense member of lower level can also be set to dynamic.

  Kind regards

  Cameron Lackpour

  Published by: CL on May 7, 2013 08:44
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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.

• possiple to reduce the size of the disk?

  I use ESX4.0. When I creat a vm with a size of 100 Gb.when OS (Win 2003) installation HDD allocate 50 GB in c: .remaning 50 GB drive is unallocated space.  I installed the application lifetime.

  is there a way to reduce disk size 50 Gb only Alsy_val. ?

  Thank you

  If you want to reduce the disc a virtual machine, you can use VMware Converter, take a look at The help of VMware Converter to resize virtual disk files

• 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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• reduce the size of the disk

  I have P2V one of the servers. The original size of the disk is 180 GB - vmdk. in Windows, there are 2 partitions. supposly delete one partition I can use converter to reduce the disk?

  any other tips?

  It is C: - drive OS...

  I use the conversion tool and change the settings to change the size of the disk. You can use the conversion on the already converted machine tool. The source and destination can be the same host but new name of the guest.

• 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.

• 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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• Reduce the size of photo on laptop library

  Received error message - your startup disk is almost full.  Checked storage space - about 3G stay out of 120 G.  Majority of the space is used by the Photos, even if I have pictures of preferences to control the size based on the remaining storage space.  With the help of El Capitan 10.11.3

  OK, that setting is not so magical. It will do it's best to reduce the size of your local images, but there is a limit.

  You can, and it appears to have run out of disk space. An external USB drive is probably your best option. Move your pictures on it and free up space on your system drive.

  You heurterez you probably have other problems with so little disk space available.

• Reduce the size of the folder Windows/install in Windows 7

  I found many messages touting the benefits of a utility that MS formerly offered to reduce the size of the folder Windows/Installer for earlier versions of Windows called MSIZAP.exe.  Of course, this is not recommended and has been replaced by a FixIt.

  My main drive has grown to use 60 GB!  I install most everything I am able to install it on other players.  On the 60 GB, the Windows folder using 23.6 GB.
  I have already reduced the Windows/winsxs folder to 10.6 GB 6.1 GB with the MARIKEL utility.
  How am I able to reduce the folder Windows/Installer of her current 7.33 GB size?  This file consumes almost 1/3 of the already massive amount of the Windows folder?
  Thanks in advance!
  Hello

  The Installer folder may be located in the folder C:\Windows\Installer. (Folder install is a hidden folder).

  We can delete the files in the folder, but they will be required when you try to uninstall some programs that installed with Windows Installer. So after you delete these files, we will need to reinstall or repair a related program if they cannot be uninstalled with error "needs to uninstall previous installation".

  However, instead of delete the folder of Windows install, I should delete you them using Disk Cleanup.

  In addition, reducing the space for the restoration of the system.

  Reference:
  How much space does System Restore disk requires?

  WARNING: If you reduce the disk space to be smaller than the space that is currently used by the system of protection, older restore points, including previous versions of files, will be deleted.

• Reduce the size of my backup file.

  Backing up files on my computer seems too large. I have Windows 7 and it has 298 GB in D drive and at the present time, there are 53 GB free.  The system tells me that requiere 244 Go back up, which seems excessively high.  I went through and deleted the old back ups. and the current D: file shows that it is divided into 3 things - Datat file backups: 81 GB, System image 163GB & other files 111 GB.  Any ideas how to reduce the size of the back up required?

  Hello

  1 have had modifications made to your computer before the problem occurred?

  2. do you get any error code or error message when you try to perform the action?

  Archive old files to backup in ZIP files.

  You can use Zip compressed Windows to compress backup files to save disk space, or you can perform a customized Windows backup.

  You can also check the following links and check if that helps.

  How Windows selects the files to back up?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-does-Windows-choose-which-files-to-back-up

  Back up your files

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-your-files

  Back up and restore: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions

  I hope this information helps. Please get back to us if you have any other questions on this subject.