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ah ok, so in this case it is not supported with VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 at all without causing any downtime.<br />
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svMotion the VM can only shrink the thin provision VMDK but not shrink the entire assigned disk capacity to the VM.
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ah ok, so in this case it is not supported with VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 at all without causing any downtime.

svMotion the VM can only shrink the thin provision VMDK but not shrink the entire assigned disk capacity to the VM.

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That is correct, but you can V2V using Converter, and have 30-60s of downtime!
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That is correct, but you can V2V using Converter, and have 30-60s of downtime!

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Hi All,<br />
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How to shrink VM HDD into smaller capacity from 100 GB thin provision into 50 GB ?<br />
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if possible the VM should not be turned off as it is production Windows Server 2008 box.<br />
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Thanks
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Hi All,

How to shrink VM HDD into smaller capacity from 100 GB thin provision into 50 GB ?

if possible the VM should not be turned off as it is production Windows Server 2008 box.

Thanks

How to shrink VM HDD into smaller capacity ?

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.

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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).