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You cannot shrink a physical raw disk. After you prepare the volume, unmount it with VMware DiskMount. To keep the virtual disk in its current state, simply remove the snapshot. Correct Answers - 10 points. You must remove the snapshot before you shrink the virtual disk. Before you can shrink the virtual disk, make sure you prepare all the volumes of the virtual disk for shrinking. I learnt from google that this can be done using vmware-vdiskmanager.

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In order for the virtual machine to recognize the converted virtual disk, you should use the virtual machine settings editor to remove the existing vdiskmanagerr disk from the virtual machine, then add the converted vvmware to the virtual machine. Asked 2 years, 9 months ago. Continue mounting each volume of the virtual disk and preparing it for shrinking until you complete this process for all the volumes of the virtual disk. Once the conversion is completed and you have tested the converted virtual disk to make sure it works as expected, you can delete the original virtual disk file.

You must remove the snapshot before you shrink the virtual disk. Windows Host To repair a virtual disk of a Workstation virtual machine in a Windows host, use the vmware-vdiskmanager utility that is installed by the Workstation installer in the installation folder on a Windows host.

Running the VMware Virtual Disk Manager Utility

For information on adding virtual disks to a virtual machine, see Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine. Vdiskmannager content has been marked as final. Please advice what shoud I do next pleaase? Just including for completeness. To locate the disk in a different directory but keep the same name, use: You can shrink virtual disks on Windows hosts only.

You can defragment only growable virtual disks.

Unicorn Meta Zoo 9: Is there any other way to achieve this? Choose one of the following types: Before you rename the virtual disk or change the directory in which it is located, you should remove the virtual disk from any virtual machine that contains the disk.

The virtual disk space is no longer preallocated, and the virtual disk manager reclaims some disk space in the virtual disk so it is only as large as the data contained within it. You must specify an adapter type when creating a new virtual disk.

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You must specify the new, larger size of the virtual disk in gigabytes or megabytes. You must specify the type of virtual disk when you create a new one or reconfigure an existing one. Then use a command like the following: Specifies the size of the virtual disk.

To use the virtual disk repair utility on a Linux host: Sign up using Email and Password. The name and location of the log file appear in the command prompt or terminal window after the virtual disk manager command is run.

Specifies the disk adapter type. Please enter a title.

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The following examples illustrate how to use the virtual disk manager. By providing directory paths, you can rename the disk and place it in a different directory or place the disk with the same name in a different directory.

The disk space is not preallocated.

This tool uses JavaScript and much of it will not work correctly without it enabled. Before you can shrink the virtual disk, make sure you prepare all the volumes of the virtual disk for shrinking. Please turn JavaScript back vmwar and reload this page. Converts the specified virtual disk, creating a new virtual disk as a result. To keep the virtual disk in its current state, simply remove the snapshot.