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where can i find this option? and is it save to use?
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where can i find this option? and is it save to use?

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If you have the proper vSphere license, a Storage vMotion will shrink it too.
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If you have the proper vSphere license, a Storage vMotion will shrink it too.

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I have a vmware that uses thin provisioning.<br />
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now that vmware has been growed to 300gb. after a cleanup of the data it uses 100gb<br />
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but when i look at the vmware file it is still 300gb big. is there a way to shrink back the file to the actual usage?
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I have a vmware that uses thin provisioning.

now that vmware has been growed to 300gb. after a cleanup of the data it uses 100gb

but when i look at the vmware file it is still 300gb big. is there a way to shrink back the file to the actual usage?

shrink vmware file

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

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.