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Great - thanks Andrew. &nbsp;I'll follow the articles. &nbsp;thank you!
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Great - thanks Andrew.  I'll follow the articles.  thank you!

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We are needing to reduce the hard disk of a VM guest from 400G down to 100G. &nbsp;The only way this is possible, we understand, is to use the Standalone Converter. &nbsp;We are not sure whether the source VM needs to be on or off for the procedure, and how to specify the &quot;source&quot;, as far as what category to select. &nbsp;Any help is appreciated.<br />
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We are needing to reduce the hard disk of a VM guest from 400G down to 100G.  The only way this is possible, we understand, is to use the Standalone Converter.  We are not sure whether the source VM needs to be on or off for the procedure, and how to specify the "source", as far as what category to select.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Need help converting a VM guest into another VM guest, to reduce disk size.

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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.