Reduce the size of VM virtual disks?

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• Reduce the size of a virtual machine

  Hi all

  I run VMware Player 3.1 on Windows 7 Pro, and I have created a virtual machine for XP mode. This machine was created with a disc on a maximum of 127 G, of which only 13 G are used at the present time. I want to reduce the maximum size of 30 G but cannot find how.

  Is there a way to do this?

  Thank you

  My suggestion would be to resize the partition and cancel the remaining dynamic space allocation.  This can be done, for example, by starting the machine virtual with a Linux Live CD (or .iso image) and use gparted or install and use a program like EASEUS Partition Master or similar.

  While the size of the virtual hard disk will always remain 127 GB however it will contain only the max size to set the partition and with unallocated space, you have space to grow easily in necessary in the future.  By the way I'm assuming that the existing virtual hard drive is not allocated in advance and is growable.  If it is allocated in advance, then you must use vmware-vdiskmanager to change the disc type.  If using vmware-vdiskmanager take a look to: repair of a ramdisk in Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1

• Increase the size of a virtual disk prealloue?

  I have created a virtual machine with a 20 GB preallocatred, persistent virtual disk because "I'm sure it will be a big enough...". "Unfortunately, I'm going to need to increase this if possible and I'm dreading to rebuild a new one from scratch.  All the options in the EDIT hard training in server 2.0 are not available (grayed out).

  Is there a way to expand this virtual machine?  I may have the image with 3rd party tools and restoration?  All options are appreciated!

  See the frequently asked questions in the VMware Server forum

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Reduce the size VMDK

  How can we reduce size of VMDK in ESXi 5

  Can directly without power VM off-> change settings and reduce the size of vmdk by entering a value in the column size of VMDK?

  Please suggest...

  No, unfortunately this is not possible. This would require ESXi be aware of the installed guest OS, its file system and partitioning, in order to adjust the partitions to the size reduction. To reduce the size of virtual disk, you can use. for example, VMware Converter.

  André

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. This process may be denied requests for some applications.

  When I start my laptop I get "your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. This process may be denied requests for some applications. "and my laptop takes forever or does not open my programs. any help? Thank you.

  less than low disk space,

  What seems to be the case, it's that your windows is having a hard time resize its file for virtual memory.

  my suggestion is to remove "auto" at that time, and then set a custom format.

  I recommend that you set the initial size of 2 and max at 1152.

  Here's how to put a link:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-the-size-of-virtual-memory

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• 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.