This HowTo covers the steps necessary to shrink a VMware Server 2.0 virtual disk. Before beginning this process it is important to understand a few requirements:
- * At least one of the virtual machines currently using the virtual disk must have the VMware Tools package installed.
- * It is only possible to reduce the size of a virtual disk which was initially configured as ''growable''. ''Pre-allocated'' virtual disks cannot be reduced in size.
- * There must be no current snapshots of any virtual machines which utilize the virtual disk.
- * If the virtual disk is configured as ''Independent'' it must be in ''Persistent Mode''.
== Installing VMware Tools ==
