54 servers total. Some perfectly provisioned some are grossly over provisioned on the not Boot volumes (Disks) Looks like Shrinking in Windows. (To prevent data loss during V2V.) Then V2V outside of windows (Down time) Going to try and write this up as I go. Maybe I can share with the group for review and blog posting.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:06 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Shrinking Windows volume Hi David, What does that mean on a per server basis? How much storage has been allocated to each server? (individually or by server class?) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, David McSpadden <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Datastores. Windows actually in use 9.56 TB VM provisioned 30 TB VM Used 13.5 TB Actual VM space 18 TB I would like to reduce the provisioned space back down closer to 10TB if possible. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of geoff Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 10:46 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Shrinking Windows volume What have you over allocated? CPUs and memory are easy to change on the fly Storage depending on your environment can be trickier but not insurmountable. gt I'm just Playbookin' around ________________________________ From: "David McSpadden" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: 16 June, 2014 10:19 AM Subject: [NTSysADM] Shrinking Windows volume I am 9months into my VMware virtualization and it appears we have over allocated a lot of windows server migrations. What is the best/safest/free? Software to reduce my VM machine footprints in the vSphere enterprise? Run version 5.5 and windows server from server 2000 all the way up to 2012. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
