{"id":951,"date":"2020-09-11T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/?p=951"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:29:12","slug":"john-casellis-how-to-convert-vmware-disks-from-thick-to-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/john-casellis-how-to-convert-vmware-disks-from-thick-to-thin\/%20","title":{"rendered":"John Caselli&#8217;s How to convert VMWare disks from Thick to Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Make sure SSH is turned on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IP &amp; port 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Login<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; ls \/\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(confirm that this where the disk is)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; cd \/\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; ls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -i &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;thinName.vmdk&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (replace name.vmdk with the actual name)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -E &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;origName.vmdk&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -E &#8220;thinName.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do it this way in case there is a problem, you can go back to the original and try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John P. Caselli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure SSH is turned on. Putty IP &amp; port 22 Login Password &gt;&nbsp; ls \/\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(confirm that this where the disk is) &gt;&nbsp; cd \/\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1 &gt;&nbsp; ls &gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -i &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;thinName.vmdk&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (replace name.vmdk with the actual name) &gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -E &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;origName.vmdk&#8221; &gt;&nbsp; vmkfstools -E &#8220;thinName.vmdk&#8221; -d thin &#8220;Name.vmdk&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedarktimes.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}