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Hi nitenKumar,<br />
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Thanks for your prompted suggestion. Please give me some time to read through, thanks.
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Hi nitenKumar,

Thanks for your prompted suggestion. Please give me some time to read through, thanks.

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Thanks for Expert - Niten, in sharing his suggestion. This method rocks.
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Thanks for Expert - Niten, in sharing his suggestion. This method rocks.

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This is using Citrix Xenserver and XenCenter version 6.0. There are a few VM, in which the virtual disk is very under-utilized. For example, found a web server - web1, only 100 GB was used out of 500 GB. We are thinking of shrinking this existing virtual disk from &nbsp;500 gb to 200 gb, how should we do?<br />
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VMware got a tool called, VMware vSphere Convertor, does Xen comes with XenConvertor or any other tool? If so, please show step-by-step on how to &quot;shrink&quot; it without affecting the existing data.<br />
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Thanks a lot.
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This is using Citrix Xenserver and XenCenter version 6.0. There are a few VM, in which the virtual disk is very under-utilized. For example, found a web server - web1, only 100 GB was used out of 500 GB. We are thinking of shrinking this existing virtual disk from  500 gb to 200 gb, how should we do?

VMware got a tool called, VMware vSphere Convertor, does Xen comes with XenConvertor or any other tool? If so, please show step-by-step on how to "shrink" it without affecting the existing data.

Thanks a lot.

How to shrink virtual disk on XenServer?

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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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.