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Reduce the space of the physical drive that vm disks seem to occup

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 10/02/2006
From: GhostAdmin
Message:

Goodevening everyone, my name is Ioannis Alexopoulos and i am from Greece.
As we say in Greece "IT all sounds Greek to me" :)

So.. we are all using the Microsoft Virtual Server R2 in order to create
Logical Machines for our purposes.. But Logical Machines have one ugly
backdrop.. They Consume Hard Disk Space.
Image that a vhd file is just a typical file that can only grown, it can not
"shrink" dynamically, even we erase data from the Logical Machine itself.
So.. after some experimenting, we found out that by adding the VHD files in
a Compressed Directory, the VHD files seem to "Shrink" Dynamically.

Image a File Server that is a Guest Machine (Logical Machine) and is a
actually one big 180GB File, resides in a Compressed Folder in a Host Machine
that occupies only 80 GB.

My name is Ioannis Alexopoulos and you can find me on my msn account
(email address - cut out)

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Re: Reduce the space of the physical drive that vm disks seem to occup

Sent: 10/03/2006
From: Agent86 <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

You will find a modest performance gain on modern hardware too.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:04:01 -0700, GhostAdmin
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

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>Goodevening everyone, my name is Ioannis Alexopoulos and i am from Greece.
>As we say in Greece "IT all sounds Greek to me" :)
>
>So.. we are all using the Microsoft Virtual Server R2 in order to create
>Logical Machines for our purposes.. But Logical Machines have one ugly
>backdrop.. They Consume Hard Disk Space.
>Image that a vhd file is just a typical file that can only grown, it can not
>"shrink" dynamically, even we erase data from the Logical Machine itself.
>So.. after some experimenting, we found out that by adding the VHD files in
>a Compressed Directory, the VHD files seem to "Shrink" Dynamically.
>
>Image a File Server that is a Guest Machine (Logical Machine) and is a
>actually one big 180GB File, resides in a Compressed Folder in a Host Machine
>that occupies only 80 GB.
>
>My name is Ioannis Alexopoulos and you can find me on my msn account
>(email address - cut out)

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