I've never had occasion to use it but I believe that VMWare has a shrink
functionality as well. It's part of the VM tools run from within the VM.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of David McSpadden
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:11 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Shrinking Windows volume
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]>
[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?)
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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
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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.
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