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A number of methods, move the disk to another datastore, remove the disk from the VM, and re-add it back (do not delete from disk).<br />
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Has the size changed on the datastore - this is key ?<br />
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I assume a bit like this method I wrote in this EE Article<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_12938.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) in 15 minutes</a>
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Yes, That was your article I used to follow the procedure to Shrink a VMDK file. The removing and adding the disk work perfectly fine, Thanks for your quick reply.<br />
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Regards<br />
Ven
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I used a procedure to shrink the .VMDK file which was 200GB as we did not need the space allocated to it and there was plenty of free space. I used one of the recommended methods to shrink the volume from within windows disk management creating un-allocated space and then subsequently using the vi interface through an SSH session to reduce the size of the disk. It worked perfectly fine and I can see the disk size reduced on Disk Management from within the windows to 100GB. But when I logon to vSphere client to check the size of the .VMDK file it is unchanged and still stating the size as 200GB. How can i ensure it reflects the changed size?<br />
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Regards<br />
Ven
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I used a procedure to shrink the .VMDK file which was 200GB as we did not need the space allocated to it and there was plenty of free space. I used one of the recommended methods to shrink the volume from within windows disk management creating un-allocated space and then subsequently using the vi interface through an SSH session to reduce the size of the disk. It worked perfectly fine and I can see the disk size reduced on Disk Management from within the windows to 100GB. But when I logon to vSphere client to check the size of the .VMDK file it is unchanged and still stating the size as 200GB. How can i ensure it reflects the changed size?

Regards
Ven

Reszed disk does not reflect the proper size from vSphere client

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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.