You can increase the usable space in a virtual hard disk. You cannot reduce the size of a hard disk. You cannot make a blank hard disk smaller after it has been formatted.
Having manual or AutoProtect snapshots in your virtual machine prevents you from making changes to a virtual hard disk. You must delete the snapshots before you can make a change.
Shut down or power off the virtual machine. You cannot change the setting while the virtual machine is powered on or suspended.
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2 | Select a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window and click Settings. | ||||||
3 | In the Settings window, click the hard disk you want to resize. | ||||||
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5 | (Optional) Under Advanced options, set the Bus type for the hard disk to IDE, SCSI, SATA, or NVMe. Changing this setting is recommended only for advanced users. Fusion selects the bus type that is most appropriate for the virtual machine guest operating system. | ||||||
6 | Set your disk space configuration, depending on the constraints of the file system. | ||||||
7 | Apply the changes and choose automatic or manual partition resize for Windows guests.
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