Reducing the size of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
Most of us are working in the vhd, and quite often the size increases like a hell. Reducing the vhd size was a big problem for me. 4.5GB (.vhd) file grew to 8GB in a month or so..
Not comfortable with DiskFragmenter and suddenly today I found another from an article CLEAN MEAN the VHD, which was not bad. It helped to reduce my vhd size my almost 30%
1) Inside the VM, run disk defragmenter
2) Inside the VM, run Virtual Disk Precompactor or other disk utility program to "zero out" deleted data
3) Shutdown the VM, run "Virtual Disk Wizard" from VPC console to compact the VHD.
I was told that
VMWare full version is having the option of reducing/fine tuning the vhd. Though I have never tried..