![]() If you don’t do it, after then your file system may crash after shrinking the virtual disk size. If your virtual machine is running Windows OS, use the Disk Manager diskmgmt.msc. How to Shrink the Partition Size in the Guest OS?įirst of all, reduce the size of the disk partition in the guest operating system. – Reduce the size of the VMDK file of the VMWare virtual machine on the VMFS (NFS) datastore. – Shrink the partition inside the guest OS The procedure of reducing a virtual disk size consists of two steps: ۲- Create a full backup of the virtual machine ۱- Delete all snapshots of the virtual machine (otherwise, you may damage the virtual disk) Prior to reducing the size of a virtual disk, do the following on your VMWare ESXi host: ![]() The vSphere Client doesn’t allow you to specify a smaller virtual disk size. Unlike expanding a disk of a VMWare virtual machine you can do on-the-fly without shutting the virtual machine down, it is more complicated to reduce the size of a vmdk file on the VMWare ESXi hypervisor, and you cannot do it via the vSphere Web Client graphical interface.
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