Shrink VMDK file
I recently did a P2V conversion on a Windows SBS 2003 server to VMware Workstation on my laptop. After I had the server up and running as a VM on my laptop I wiped the host and loaded ESXii 5.1. I'm now trying to get the VM back over to the original hardware as a guest.
The problem is that the disk came over as a 1TB thin provisioned disk with about 250GB used. I need to shrink the size of the disk down so it will fit. There are no snapshots associated with the disk.
In VMware Workstation 9, when I click File>>Map Virtual Disk and open the first VMDK (there are many of them, split into 2GB files) I get this message in the volume box:
Error reading the volume information. Please select another disk file.
I'm under the impression that I need to Map the Virtual disk (aka mount it) in order to shrink the size of the provisioned disk.
Is there a different \ better way to shrink the provisioned disk down to about 300GB so it'll fit on the new host?
The problem is that the disk came over as a 1TB thin provisioned disk with about 250GB used. I need to shrink the size of the disk down so it will fit. There are no snapshots associated with the disk.
In VMware Workstation 9, when I click File>>Map Virtual Disk and open the first VMDK (there are many of them, split into 2GB files) I get this message in the volume box:
Error reading the volume information. Please select another disk file.
I'm under the impression that I need to Map the Virtual disk (aka mount it) in order to shrink the size of the provisioned disk.
Is there a different \ better way to shrink the provisioned disk down to about 300GB so it'll fit on the new host?
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