HD Clean up in VM

Are you trying to save space inside the VM, or outside of the VM ?

currently you are looking outside of the VM, on he Hypervisor datastore.

As for the vSWP files, these are part of the hypervisor design, and are created when the VM is powered ON, they are removed then the VM is off, you cannot remove them!

They are used, when the hypervisor, starts to run out of memory for the VM, and starts to swap to disk.

If you wish to reduce the sizes on the VMFS datastore, you can specify memory reservations, but be warned if you start messing with reservations, you will affect the performance of the VM, by restricting memory in the VM. or ring fencing resources for the VM.

So are you trying to save space on the VMFS datastore or inside the VM OS partition?

Thanks for your quick response.  I want to save space INSIDE the VM OS partition.

that seems an okay article, at removing files in the VM....

Are you short of space in the VM ?

what are you trying to achieve ?

Yes short on space in the VM and the Storage too does not have much space.  This being a developer's  VM I really need to make some space (without deleting any programs)..  Would V2V conversion help or Resizing help?   If so, would appreciate the specific steps please.

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