Resizing (Shrinking) Guest Hard Drive Sizes With VMware Standalone Converter (vSphere 5) ESXi Server 5.1

If you want to shrink your guest hard drive size then you can use VMware Converter standalone converter

1. Installing VMware converter is pretty straightforward, run the install file and accept all the defaults. Install the converter on same machine (Virtual) that you want to resize.

2. Run the application

3. Choose Open> convert machine> choose this local machine

4. Choose the destination type (in this case choose VMware Infrastructure virtual machine) and enter the credentials for ESXi Server

5. Customize the size of disk, CPU, RAM what you want, (We are working on decreasing the size of disk)

6. Confirm the size and go for convert, it will take some time according to the machine size and configuration

7. Delete the source machine as you have now less disk size virtual machine on ESXi Server.