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Bladey001,<br />
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Are these SAS disks or SAN Attached? If San Attached you can then remove the 40GB by not presenting it to this server
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Bladey001,

Are these SAS disks or SAN Attached? If San Attached you can then remove the 40GB by not presenting it to this server

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Raheem05<br />
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They are FC SAN attached. How would i go about not presenting it to the server? Will this affect the data on the original part of the disk?
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Raheem05

They are FC SAN attached. How would i go about not presenting it to the server? Will this affect the data on the original part of the disk?

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Ok what SAN? And how did you increase it to 40GB? Did present a new LUN from the SAN?
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Ok what SAN? And how did you increase it to 40GB? Did present a new LUN from the SAN?

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Dear Experts<br />
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I have very clumsily made a blunder and hoping someone can help me out!<br />
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Our file server (a VM) has multiple virtual hard disks attached. One of them was running low on disk space so i increased the provisioned size of the disk through vSphere client but i did it on the wrong virtual disk! <br />
So now when i rescan disks on the VM i've got a virtual disk with 40GB of unallocated space.<br />
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Is there anything i can do to get that space back?
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Dear Experts

I have very clumsily made a blunder and hoping someone can help me out!

Our file server (a VM) has multiple virtual hard disks attached. One of them was running low on disk space so i increased the provisioned size of the disk through vSphere client but i did it on the wrong virtual disk! 
So now when i rescan disks on the VM i've got a virtual disk with 40GB of unallocated space.

Is there anything i can do to get that space back?

Reclaiming disk space from a VM

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.