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Resizing vmdk (VMWare)

We acquired a physical server from another company and one of our techs p2v it without re-sizing the disks. Now we have extra gigs of space that is allocated to the machine that will never be used. The system is for historical reasons so we don't want to use up anymore space on our storage unless we have to. Can it be re size downwards, possibly re cloned with a new size? O/S is Windows 2008 and the servers are ESXi 6.0
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Try this: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_shrink.html

BUT... If you allocated all the space for your virtual disk at the time you created it, then follow this:

Create a new virtual disk (of the desired size), install a program like Partition Wizard and copy the big disk into the small one.
To move (or copy) to another VM simply copy the vmdk file into the other VM directory and add it.
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@lacayoa That is for VMware Workstation not VMware vSphere (ESXi 6.0), 5 out of 10 for use of Google!

That reference is 10 years old, as VMware Workstation is now in version 12.0!
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Thanks