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A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
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It is a vhdx disk.
How to shrink Hyper-V VHD partition
John Lenz
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When I set up the Hyper-V environment for the 5 VM systems, I gave them all a fixed amount of disk space. Now I need to re-size them. Some need to expand (which I can do), but I need to shrink others to free up space.
What is the process to shrink the VHD?
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John Lenz 1,726 Reputation points
2020-10-08T18:26:36.717+00:00 -
Leon Laude 85,726 Reputation points2020-10-08T18:28:42.49+00:00 Follow the link I provided, stary by the How to Determine a VHDX’s Eligibility for Shrinking section first to check if your VHDX is "eligible" for shrinking.
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Leon Laude 85,726 Reputation points
2020-10-08T18:15:36.777+00:00 Hi @John Lenz ,
Are you attempting to shrink VHD or VHDX disks? Shrinking of VHDs is not possible.
If you're attempting to shrink VHDX disks, then I suggest you have a look at the article below, it provides all the information you need for shrinking VHDX disks:How to Shrink a Hyper-V Virtual Disk (VHDX)
https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/shrink-hyper-v-virtual-disk-vhd-vhdx/----------
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Best regards,
Leon