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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_shrink.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_shrink.html</a>
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http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_shrink.html [http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_shrink.html]

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Or vmware-vdiskmanager.exe &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; this is available in the following location.X:\Program Files\vmware\vmware workstation\Ref: <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23892810/Reducing-VMWare-Virtual-Machine-Disk-space-usage.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23892810/Reducing-VMWare-Virtual-Machine-Disk-space-usage.html</a>
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Or vmware-vdiskmanager.exe         this is available in the following location.X:\Program Files\vmware\vmware workstation\Ref: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23892810/Reducing-VMWare-Virtual-Machine-Disk-space-usage.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23892810/Reducing-VMWare-Virtual-Machine-Disk-space-usage.html]

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Perfect Solution and easy enough for me to follow. Thanks
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Perfect Solution and easy enough for me to follow. Thanks

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I installed VMWare Workstation and setup a 100gb image. However this is much larger than I need. I would like to reduce this size to 20gb. How do you &nbsp;reduce the size of the virtual hard drive. Newbie
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I installed VMWare Workstation and setup a 100gb image. However this is much larger than I need. I would like to reduce this size to 20gb. How do you  reduce the size of the virtual hard drive. Newbie

VMware reduce virtual image hard drive size

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.